Position in chronology
SAA 14 467. Bel-duri Buys […] (ADD 0495)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(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)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Spotted an error? Suggest a correction — confirmed corrections feed the engine's knowledge base.
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.earth/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/.
Related tablets
Related sources
An early example of administrative writing from Uruk. Its fragmentary numerical entries and commodity signs document record-keeping during the formative period of writing.
An early surviving historical monument that joins named rulers, a territorial dispute and religious oaths. It shows how a city-state turned victory into a lasting public claim, without establishing that this was the first recorded conflict.
Among the oldest surviving written law collections. It provides an early witness to royal justice and specified compensation, rather than a starting date for law itself.