Position in chronology
SAA 14 265. Purchase of Land and People (ADD 0458+)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [...]... (2) [...... chief v]ictualler (3) [...... of] the city (4) [......], in all 4 (5) [......]-mannu-la-Bel. (6) [......]qur, in all 5 persons, (7) [......] house, a barnyard (8) [......] Aššur-šumu-iddina, his son (9) [......] Arbela (10) [......] (Break) (r 1) [......] his [...]s (r 2) shall place [x minas of] silver and [x minas of gold in the lap of Ištar of Ar]bela, and shall return [the money tenfold to] its [owner]. (r 5) [......]... (Rest destroyed)
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/P335399/
Why it matters
Transliteration
[x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x x x⸣ / [x x x x x x x LÚ.GAL]—⸢da⸣-ni-bat / [x x x x x x x x x x] URU / [x x x x x x x x x x] PAB 04* / [x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-man-nu—la—EN [o] / [x x x x x x x x x x]-qur* PAB 05 ZI-MEŠ / [x x x x x x x x] ⸢É⸣ ri-pi-tú / [x x x x x x x x] maš-šur—MU—AŠ DUMU-šú / [x x x x x x x x] URU.arba-⸢ìl⸣ / [x x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-MEŠ* o* / [x x x x x x x x x x x]-MEŠ-šú / [x x x x x…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335399.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335399). 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/P335399/.
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