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SAA 14 291. Fragment of a Conveyance Text (ADD 0556)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) [The money is paid] comp[letely. That ...] is purchased and [acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit, or] litigation [is void]. (4) [Whoever ...]..., at any t[ime, breaks the contract, whether ... o]r [his] sons [or his grandsons] or [his] brothers [...] (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/P335485/
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Transliteration
[x x kas-pu] ga?-[mur ta-din] / [x šu-a-tú] za-rip [la-qi tu-a-ru] / [de-e-nu] DUG₄.DUG₄ [la-áš-šú] / [man-nu šá ur]-kiš? ina ma-⸢ti⸣-[ma GIL-u-ni] / [lu-u mx x x lu]-u DUMU-MEŠ-[šú] / [lu-u DUMU—DUMU-MEŠ-šú] lu-u PAB-MEŠ-[šú 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 P335485.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335485). 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/P335485/.
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