Position in chronology
SAA 14 274. Purchase of a Well (ADD 0517)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) [......] (2) [...... the c]hief eunuch [has bought for x mi]nas of silver by the mina of the king. (4) [The m]oney is paid completely, [... and] well are acquired and purchased. [Any revocation], lawsuit or litigation is void. (7) [Whoever] in the future, at any time, [lodges a compla]int and breaks the contract, [whether] thes[e] men [or] their [sons] or [...], (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/P335454/
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Transliteration
[x x x x x x x (x)]+⸢x⸣-di / [x x x x x x x LÚ].⸢GAL⸣—SAG / [ina ŠÀ x MA].NA KUG.UD ina 01 MA.NA-e ša MAN / [il-qi*] ⸢kas⸣-pu gam-mur ta-din / [x x x] PÚ ⸢zar-pu⸣ laq-qi-u / [tu-a-ru] de-nu DUG₄.DUG₄ la / [man-nu ša] ina ur-kiš ina ma-te-me / [i-za-qup]-an-ni GIL-u-ni / [lu-u] ⸢LÚ⸣-MEŠ-e an-nu-[te] / [lu-u DUMU]-⸢MEŠ*⸣-šú-nu lu-u [x x]
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335454.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335454). 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/P335454/.
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