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SAA 14 466. Fragment of a Bel-duri Document (ADD 0485)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) [...... or] his labour-duty [superior], seeks [a lawsuit or litiga]tion against Bel-duri, [his sons (and)] his [gran]dsons, (5) shall place 5 [minas of silver (and) x mi]nas of gold before [Ištar resid]ing in Arbela, [shall tie] white horses at the fe[et of Aššur], shall bring four harbakannu horses to the feet of Nergal, and shall return the money tenfold [to] its [owner. He shall contest] in his lawsuit and not succeed. (r 5) [Witness NN], commander of (mounted) scouts. (r 6) [Witness NN, (... of the)] palace herald. (r 7) [Witness NN], son of Gimillu. (r 8) [Witness NN], deputy priest. (r 9) [Witness NN], royal bodyguard. (r 10) [Witness ...]ayu, [...]. (r 11) [Witness NN], .... (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/P335424/
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Transliteration
[x x x x x x x] ⸢x x⸣-MEŠ / [x x x lu-u EN]—il-ki-šú / [ša de-nu DUG₄].⸢DUG₄⸣ TAv md.EN—BÀD / [DUMU-MEŠ-šú] ⸢DUMU⸣—DUMU-MEŠ-šú ub-ta-ʾu-u-ni / ⸢05⸣ [MA.NA KUG.UD x] ⸢MA⸣.NA KUG.GI a-⸢na⸣ / ⸢d⸣[15 a-ši]-bat URU.arba-ìl ⸢GAR*-an⸣ [o] / ANŠE.KUR-MEŠ BABBAR-MEŠ ina ⸢GÌR⸣.[2 aš-šur i-rak-kas] / 04 ANŠE.KUR-MEŠ ḫar-ba-kan-ni ina GÌR.2 dMAŠ.MAŠ / ⸢ú*⸣-še-rab kas-pu a-na 10-MEŠ-te / [a-na EN]-šú GUR-ra…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335424.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335424). 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/P335424/.
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