Position in chronology
SAA 06 101. Partial Duplicate of the Previous Text (ADD 0474+)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(Beginning destroyed) (1) [in the town ...; Abdi-Ku]bu[bi, his wife and two sons, a total of 4 per]sons [belonging to Haruranu and Sal]ila[nu] — (4) [Aplaya has contracted and bou]ght (said property) from them [for x minas of silver]. (5) The money [is paid] comple[tely]. The tower together with the fie[lds and Abdi]-Kububi together with [his] people [are paid for, purchased and acquired]. Any revocation or litigation [is void]. (9) [Whoever] at any time in the [future] comes forward, whether Haruranu or Salilanu, whether they or their sons, grandsons, brothers or nephews, or a prefect,…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[ina URU.x x x x mab-di—ku]-⸢bu⸣-[bi] / [MÍ-šú 02 DUMU-MEŠ-šú PAB 04 LÚv].⸢ZI-MEŠ⸣ / [ša mḫa-ru-ra-a-nu ù msa]-⸢li⸣-la-a-[nu] / [ú-piš-ma mDUMU.UŠ-a].⸢a⸣ TAv ŠU.2-šú-⸢nu⸣ / [ina ŠÀ x MA.NA KUG.UD] ⸢il⸣-qí kas-pu ⸢gam⸣-[mur] / [ta-din URU].⸢i*⸣-si*-tú a-di A.⸢ŠÀ⸣.[GA-MEŠ] / [mab-di]—ku*-bu-bi a-di UN-[MEŠ-šú] / [ap]-⸢lu*⸣ [zar-pu laq]-⸢qí⸣ tu-a-ru ⸢DUG₄*⸣.DUG₄ [la-áš-šú] / [man-nu] šá ina…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335413.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335413). 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/P335413/.
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