Position in chronology
SAA 14 219. Šari Buys a Field (ADD 0613)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(Beginning destroyed) (1) [Ša]rî, [...] has co[ntracted and] bou[ght] it for 1/2 mina 4 shekels of silver. (3) The money is paid completely. That field is purchased and acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is void. (7) Whoever in the future, at any time, whether Titî or his son or his grandson, lodges a complaint and breaks the contract and seeks a lawsuit or litigation against Šarî, his son (and) his grandson, (r 5) shall place 5 minas of refined silver (and) one mina of pure gold in the lap of Ninurta [...], [and shall return] the money [...] (Break) (e. 1) (Aramaic caption:) Deed of the field of Titî from ...[...].
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
ú-[piš-ma m]⸢IM⸣-i ⸢LÚ⸣.[x x x x] / ina ŠÀ 1/2 MA.NA 04 GÍN-MEŠ KUG.UD ⸢TI⸣ / kas-pu ga-mur ta-din / A.ŠÀ šu-a-tu zar-pu / laq-qi-u tu-a-ru de-e-nu / DUG₄.DUG₄ la-áš-šú / man-nu ša ina ur-kiš / ina ma-te-ma i-za-qu-pa-ni / i-GIL-u-ni lu-u / mti-ti-i lu-u DUMU-šú / lu-u DUMU—DUMU-šú ša de-e-nu / DUG₄.DUG₄ TA mIM-i DUMU-šú / DUMU—DUMU-šú ub-ta-u-ni / 05 MA.NA KUG.UD LUḪ-ú / 01 MA.NA KUG.GI sak-ru / ina bur-ki dMAŠ? [x x x x x] / [i]-šak-kan kas-[pu x x x x] / dnt ⸢xql)⸣ / zy tṭ? m?n? ⸢d?⸣[...]
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335530.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335530). 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/P335530/.
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