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SAA 14 467. Bel-duri Buys […] (ADD 0495)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) [...... are purchased and acq]uired. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is void. (3) Whoever in the future, [at any t]ime, lo[d]ges a complaint (or) breaks the contract, [whet]her Bessi-na'dat or his prefect or his go[ver]nor or any relative of his [o]r the m[ayo]r of his city, and seeks a lawsuit or litigation against Bel-duri and [his sons and] his [grandsons, shall place one ta]lent of [refi]ned silver (and) one mina of p[ur]e gold in the lap of [Išt]ar residing in Nineveh, [shall return the mone]y [tenfo]ld [to its owners]. He shall contest [in his lawsuit (and not succeed)]. (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/P335433/
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Transliteration
[x x] ⸢ša x x x x x x za⸣-[ar-pu] / [la]-qi-ú tu-a-ru de-e-nu / DUG₄.DUG₄ la-áš-šú man-nu ša ina ur-kiš / ⸢ma⸣-te-ma i-za-<qu>-pa-an-ni GIL-u-ni / [lu]-u mbé-e-si—I lu-u LÚv.GAR-nu-šú / [lu]-u LÚv.⸢EN.NAM⸣-su lu-u mám-ma-mu*-šú / lu-u ⸢ḫa⸣-[za]-⸢nu⸣ URU-šú TAv mEN—BÀD / ⸢DUMU⸣-[MEŠ-šú DUMU—DUMU-MEŠ]-šú de-e-nu / ⸢DUG₄⸣.DUG₄ ub-ta-u-ni [01 GÚ].UN KUG.UD / [LUḪ]-u 01 MA.NA KUG.GI ⸢sak-ru⸣ ina…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335433.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) ? — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335433). 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/P335433/.
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