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SAA 14 399. Purchase of an Estate of 60 Hectares in Nikua (Iraq 32 11)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) [...]s [......] (2) [ (1) wo]man, in all 2 (of) [......], (3) [ (1) wo]man, in all 2 (of) Hanunu-il, [...], (4) [ (1) wo]man, in all 2 (of) Qansê, [...], (5) [in al]l 18 persons, in all 3 houses [...]. (6) An estate of 60 hectares of land, 2 orcha[rds ...] in Nikua — (7) [NN] has contracted and boug[ht] for 15 minas of silver [...] from Marduk-ahu-iddina [...]. Tha[t] house, field, orchards, people [are purchased and acquired. Any revocation, la]wsuit, or litigation is voi[d]. (11) [(Guaranteed against) seizures of epilepsy for 100 days and against fraud fo]rever. (12) Whoever in [the future, at any time], breaks the contract [...] (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/P336197/
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Transliteration
[(x) x]-MEŠ [x x x x x x x x x x] / [(01)] ⸢MÍ?⸣ PAB 02 md[x x x x x x x x] / [(01)] ⸢MÍ?⸣ PAB 02 mḫa-⸢nu-nu⸣—DINGIR [x x x x x] / [(01)] ⸢MÍ?⸣ PAB 02 mqa-an-se-e [x x x x x] / ⸢PAB?⸣ 18 ZI-MEŠ PAB 03 É? [x x x x x x] / É 60 ANŠE A.ŠÀ 02 GIŠ.⸢SAR⸣ [x x x x x] / ina URU.ni-ku-u-a ú-piš-⸢ma?⸣ [mx x x x] / ina ŠÀ-bi 15 MA.NA KUG.UD [x x x x] / TA* IGI mdAMAR?.⸢UTU⸣—PAB—AŠ il-⸢qi⸣ [x x x x] / É A.ŠÀ…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P336197.
Attribution
Image: BM 134551 (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P336197). 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/P336197/.
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