Position in chronology
SAA 14 465. Bel-duri Buys an Orchard in the Land of the Palace Herald (ADD 0467)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(Beginning destroyed) (2) [...]... in the Land of the [Palace] Herald, adjoining the [or]chard of Parši[du], adjoining the [or]chard of Nuhšay[a], adjoining the [or]chard of Ša[maš-...] and adjoining the [or]chard of Da[..., ...] — (7) Bel-duri, major-domo [...], has contracted, bought and acquired it [for x t]alents of bronze [......]. (10) [The money is] paid [completely]. That orchard [is purchased and acquired. Any re]vocation or litigation is vo[id]. (12) [Whoever in the future, at] any time, (Break) (r 1) Witness [...]. (r 2) Witness Muta[qqin]-Aš[šur, ...]. (r 3) Witness Šelubu, [...]. (r 4) Witness [...]-Aššur, [...]. (r 5) [Witness Nik]kal-šumu-iddina, [...]. (r 6) [Witness ...]banu, [...]. (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[x x x x x] ri ⸢x x⸣ x ⸢x⸣+[x x x] / [x x x x]-⸢re*⸣-e ina KUR LÚ.⸢NIGIR*⸣—[É.GAL] / SUḪUR [GIŠ].⸢SAR⸣ ša mpar-ši-[du] / SUḪUR [GIŠ].⸢SAR⸣ ša mḪÉ.NUN-a.[a] / SUḪUR [GIŠ].⸢SAR⸣ ša md⸢UTU⸣-[x x x] / SUḪUR [GIŠ].⸢SAR⸣ ša mda-[x x x] / [x x x ú]-piš-ma mEN—BÀD LÚ.GAL—⸢É⸣ [x x] / [ina ŠÀ-bi x GÚ].UN UD.KA.BAR-MEŠ / [x x x x x]-MEŠ i-zi*-rip i-si-⸢qi⸣ / [kas-pu gam-mur] ta-din GIŠ.SAR šu-a-⸢tum⸣ / [x x…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335406.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335406). 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/P335406/.
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