Position in chronology
SAA 14 204. Nabu-alik-idiya Buys [...]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(Beginning destroyed) (1) [bought ...... fr]om [these] men. (2) [The money is paid completely. Those ... are purchased and acquired. Any re]vocation, [lawsuit, or litigation is void]. (3) [Whoever in the future, at any tim]e, (4) [......] (5) [......] seeks [a lawsuit or litigat]ion [against] Nabû-hamatua, [his sons (and) his grandsons], (7) shall place [x minas of refined silver and x minas of] pure gold [in the lap of Ištar residi]ng in Nineveh, shall tie [two white horses at the feet of Ašš]ur, and shall bring [four harbakannu horses at] the feet of Nergal. (Break) (r 1) [......] shall eat [1 mina of pluc]ked wool (r 2) [......] (r 3) [Witness ..., ...] of the queen. (r 4) [Witness ..., ...] of the queen. (r 5) [......] ditto. (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[x x x x x x x x x x x x x] ⸢TAv LÚv⸣.UN-MEŠ / [an-nu-te il-qi kas-pu gam-mur ta-din x x x x zar-pu la-qi-u] ⸢tu⸣-a-ru / [de-e-nu DUG₄.DUG₄ la-áš-šu man-nu šá ina ur-kiš ina ma-te]-⸢ma⸣ / [x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x]-mar / [x x x x x x x x x x x x x ša TAv m]dPA—a-<lik>—Á-u-a / [DUMU-MEŠ-šú DUMU—DUMU-MEŠ-šú de-e-nu DUG₄].⸢DUG₄⸣ ub-ta-u-ni / [x MA.NA KUG.UD LUḪ-u x MA.NA] ⸢KUG⸣.GI sak-ru /…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P336741.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P336741). source
Translation excerpted from Mattila, R. 2002. Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part II: Assurbanipal through Sin-šarru-iškun. SAA 14. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa14/P336741/.
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