Position in chronology
SAA 14 325. Purchase of a Threshing Floor (ADD 0706)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(Beginning destroyed) (1) [... That] threshing floor is [acquired] and purchased. Any re[vocation, lawsuit, or] litigation is vo[id]. (4) Whoever in the future, at any time, breaks the contract, shall place 5 minas of pure gold (and) 20 minas of refined silver in the lap of Ištar residing in Nineveh, and shall return the money tenfold to its owners. (r 1) Witness Šamaš-na'id, cohort commander. (r 2) Witness Arbailayu. (r 3) Witness [...]ate. (r 4) [......]nâ. (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[x x x] ad-ru? [za-rip] / laq-qi tu-[a-ru de-e-nu] / DUG₄.DUG₄ la-áš-[šú] / man-nu šá ina ur-kiš ina ma-te-e-ma / GIL-u-ni 05 MA.NA KUG.GI sak-ru / 20 MA.NA KUG.UD LUḪ-u / ina bur-ki dIŠ.TAR a-ši-bat / NINA.KI i-šak-kan / kas-pu a-na 10-MEŠ-te ana EN-MEŠ-šú / GUR-ra / IGI mdUTU?—I LÚ.GAL—ki-ṣir / IGI marba-ìl.KI-a.a / IGI m[x x x]-a.a-te / [x x x x x]-na-a
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335584.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335584). 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/P335584/.
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