Position in chronology
SAA 14 215. Sin-na’id Buys an Estate (ADD 0464)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) An estate of [...... adjo]ining the ditch — (2) [Sin-na'id has contracted and bought] for 6 mi[nas of silver]. (4) The money is p[aid] completely. The people are purchased [and acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit, or] litigation is void. (6) Whoever [in the future], lodges a complaint and breaks the contract whether [NN] or his sons or his grandsons, and seeks a lawsuit or litigation [against] Sin-na'id, his sons (and) his grandsons, (10) shall place [x minas of refined silver] (and) one mina of pure gold [in the lap of Ištar re]siding in Nineveh, shall tie [two white…
Source: 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/P335404/
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Transliteration
É [x x x x x x x x x x] / [gab]-di ḫi-ri-⸢ti⸣ [ú-piš-ma m30—I] / ina ŠÀ-bi 06 MA.[NA KUG.UD il-qi] / kas-pu gam-mur ⸢ta⸣-[ad-din] / UN-MEŠ zar₄-pu ⸢TI⸣-[ú tú-a-ru de-nu] / DUG₄.DUG₄ la-áš-šú man-nu [ša ina ur-kiš] / i-za-qu-za-pa-ni GIL-u-ni lu-u m⸢DINGIR⸣-[x x x] / ⸢lu⸣-u DUMU-MEŠ-šú lu-u <DUMU>—DUMU-MEŠ-šú de-nu DUG₄.DUG₄ / [TAv] m30—I DUMU-MEŠ-šú DUMU—DUMU-MEŠ-šú ub-ta-ʾu-u-ni / [x MA.NA…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335404.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335404). 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/P335404/.
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