Position in chronology
SAA 14 306. Fragment of a Conveyance Text (ADD 0585)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (2) [shall place x] mina of refi[ned] silver [(and) x mina of pure gold in] the lap of Nabû resi[ding in ..., and shall return] the money tenfold [to its owner]. They shall contest [in] their lawsuit [and not succeed]. (6) Witness Balasî, [...]. (7) Witness Ubru-Harran, [...]. (8) [...] of [...] (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/P335507/
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Transliteration
[x]-MEŠ [x x x x x x x x x x] / [x] MA.NA KUG.UD ⸢LUḪ⸣ [x MA.NA KUG.GI sak-ru] / [ina] bur-ki dPA a-⸢ši⸣-[bi URU.x x GAR-an] / kas-pu a-na 10-MEŠ [a-na EN-šú GUR] / [ina] de-ni-šú-nu DUG₄.DUG₄-[ma là TI] / IGI mba-la-si-i [x x x x] / IGI mSUḪUŠ—URU.KASKAL [x x x x] / [x x] ša [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 P335507.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335507). 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/P335507/.
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