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SAA 14 294. Fragment of a Conveyance Text (ADD 0559)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) [whether NN] or his son (2) [against NN] or his sons (3) [... comes forward and seeks and institutes] a lawsuit [or litigation] (r 1) shall place [x minas of] silver and 10 minas (of gold) in the lap of [Aššur re]siding in Ešarra, shall place [x mina of silver] (and) one mina of p[ure] gold [in the lap of Ištar residing in] Nineveh, [and shall return the money tenfold] to its owners. (r 6) [He shall contest in his lawsuit] and not succeed. (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/P335488/
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Transliteration
[x x x x x] lu DUMU.UŠ-šú / [x x x x x] TAv A-MEŠ-šú / [x x x x x ša e-la-an-ni] de-nu / [DUG₄.DUG₄ ub-ta-u-ni i-gar]-ru-u-ni / [x MA.NA] KUG.UD 10 MA.NA o* ina bur-ki / [aš-šur a]-šib É.ŠÁR.RA GAR-an / [x MA.NA KUG.UD x] MA.NA KUG.GI ⸢sak⸣-[ru] / [ina bur-ki d15 a-ši-bat] URU.NINA.KI GAR-⸢an⸣ / [kas-pu a-na 10-MEŠ] ana EN-MEŠ-šú [GUR] / [ina de-ni-šú DUG₄.DUG₄]-⸢ma là TI⸣
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335488.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335488). 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/P335488/.
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