Position in chronology
SAA 14 313. Fragment of a Conveyance Text (ADD 0598)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(Beginning destroyed) (1) The mon[ey] is paid [compl]etely. [That ...] is purchased and acquired. Any revoca[tion, lawsu]it, or litig[ation is void]. (Break) (r 1) He shall pay 10 minas of silver (and) one mina of gold, and shall return the money tenfold to its owner. He shall contest in his lawsuit and not succeed. (r 4) Witness Nabû-ila'i. (r 5) Witness Imannû. (r 6) Witness Salamanu. (r 7) Witness Ahi-idri. (r 8) Witness Samaku. (r 9) Witness Nabû-ahu-uṣur, scribe. (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
kas-[pu gam]-mur ta-din / ⸢x⸣+[x x x] za-rip TI / tu-[a-ru de-e-nu] / DUG₄.[DUG₄ la-aš-šú] / 10 MA.NA KUG.UD 01 MA.NA KUG.GI i-dan / kas-pu a-na 10-MEŠ-te ana EN-šú ú-GUR / ina de-ni-šú DUG₄.DUG₄ la i-laq-qi / IGI mdPA—DINGIR-a.a / IGI mi-man-nu-u / IGI msa-la-ma-man / IGI mPAB—id-ri / IGI msa-ma-ka / IGI mdPA—PAB—PAB A.BA
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335518.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Sippar-Yahrurum (mod. Tell Abu Habbah) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335518). 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/P335518/.
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