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SAA 14 307. Fragment of a Conveyance Text (ADD 0587)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) [... has contracted and bought for x] minas of [silver by the mina] of Carchemish. (3) [The money] is pai[d] completely. [That ...] is purchased and acquired. [Any revocation, l]awsuit, or litigation [is void]. (6) [Whoe]ver in the futu[re, at any time], lodges a complai[nt], (Break) (r 2) [Witness NN, char]iot driver. (r 3) [Witness NN, gover]nor of Arbela. (r 4) [Witness NN, chief] victualler. (r 5) [Witness NN], chief cook of the crown prince. (r 6) [Witness NN], mayor of Arbela. (r 7) [Witness NN, ...] of the centre of the city of Nineveh. (r 8) [......] (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/P335509/
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Transliteration
[ina ŠÀ x] MA.NA [KUG.UD] / [ina 01 MA.NA-e] ša KUR.gar-ga-mis / [il-qí kas-pu] gam-mur ta-⸢din⸣ / [x šu-a-tu] za-rip laq-qi / [tu-a-ru] ⸢de⸣-e-nu DUG₄.DUG₄ / [la-aš-šú man]-nu šá ina ur-⸢kiš⸣ / [ina ma-te-ma] i-zaq-qup-an-[ni] / [x x x x x x x x]-us? / [x x x x x x x x x x]-šú / [x x x x x x x x]—AŠ? / [IGI mx x x x x LÚ.DIB]—KUŠ.PA-MEŠ / [IGI mx x x x x LÚ.EN].⸢NAM⸣ šá arba-ìl / [IGI mx x x x…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335509.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335509). 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/P335509/.
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