Position in chronology
SAA 06 020. Fragment of a Legal Document of Šumu-lešir (ADD 0303+)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(Beginning destroyed) (1) [Whoever in the] fut[ure, at any time, breaks the contract and seeks a lawsuit or litigation] against Šumu-lešir, [shall eat] one mina of plucked wo[ol and shall drink a full agannu vessel of tanner's paste. He shall place] one mina of refi[ned] silv[er and one mina of pure gold in the lap of ......]. (r 1) [He shall tie] two white horses to the feet of [Aššur, and shall bring] four harbakannu horses to the feet of Nergal. [He shall pay] a talent of tin to the governor of [his] city, [and shall return] the money [tenfold to its owners]. (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[man-nu ša] ⸢ur*⸣-[kiš ina ma-ti-ma i-GIL-u-ni] / ⸢TAv⸣ mMU—GIŠ* [de-nu DUG₄.DUG₄ ub-ta-u-ni] / 01 MA.NA SÍG.⸢ger⸣-[du KÚ mar DUG.a-ga-ni kur-ru NAG] / 01 MA.NA ⸢KUG.UD LUḪ⸣-[u 01 MA.NA KUG.GI sak-ru] / [ina bur-ki dx x x x x x i-šá-kan] / 02 ANŠE.KUR.RA ⸢BABBAR-MEŠ⸣ ina GÌR.2 d[aš-šur i-rak-kas] / 04 ANŠE.ḫar-bak-kan-ni ina GÌR.2 dMAŠ.MAŠ [ú-še-rab] / bi-lat AN.NA ⸢a-na* EN.NAM* URU⸣-[šú SUM-an] / kás-pu a-na [10-MEŠ-te a-na EN-MEŠ-šú GUR] / [x] ⸢x x⸣ [x x x x x x x x x]
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335248.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335248). source
Translation excerpted from Kwasman, T. & Parpola, S. 1991. Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part I: Tiglath-Pileser III through Esarhaddon. SAA 6. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa06/P335248/.
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