Position in chronology
SAA 14 220. Šarru-lu-dari Buys an Estate for Half a Mina of Silver (ADD 0336)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(Beginning destroyed) (1) in all 11 [hectares of land] — (2) [Šarru-lu-dari] has contracted and bought the estate from Zabin[u ...] for half mina of silver. (5) The money is paid completely. That estate is purchased and acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is void. (8) Whoever in the future, at any time, whether Zabinu or his sons or his grandsons, seeks a lawsuit or litigation against Šarru-lu-dari, his son (and) his grandson, (r 2) shall place 10 minas of refined silver and one mina of pure gold in the lap of Sin residing Dur-Šarruken, and shall bring four harbakannu horses to the feet of Nergal, and shall return the money tenfold to its owners. He shall contest in his lawsuit and not succeed. (r 9) Witness [... , ...] of the palace. (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
PAB 11? [x x x x x] / ú-piš-ma m[MAN—lu—da-ri] / TA IGI mza-bi-⸢ni⸣ [x x] / ina ŠÀ-bi 05 MA.NA KUG.UD / É il-qí kas-pu gam-mur ta-din / É šu-a-tú za-rip laq-qi / tu-a-ru de-e-nu DUG₄.DUG₄ / la-áš-šú man-nu šá ina ur-kiš ina ma-te-ma / lu-u mza-bi-ni lu-u DUMU-MEŠ-šú / lu-u DUMU—DUMU-MEŠ-šú šá TA mMAN—lu—da-ri / DUMU-šú DUMU—DUMU-šú de-e-nu DUG₄.DUG₄ / ub-ta-ʾu-u-ni 10 MA.NA KUG.UD LUḪ-ú / 01…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335280.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335280). 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/P335280/.
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