Position in chronology
SAA 06 102. Aplaya Buys an Estate (698?) (ADD 0436)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(Beginning destroyed) (1) [of Nabû-duru-uṣur, Mannu]-ki-Aš[šur, Li'tirû and NN] — (2) [Aplaya has co]ntracted [and bought (said property) from] them for 2 minas [of silver]. (4) [The money is] paid completely. That field, [house, and orchard] are purchased and acquired. Any revocation, [law]suit, or litigation is void. (7) [Whoever at] any time in the fut[ure co]mes forward, whether Nabû-duru-uṣur, [Mannu]-ki-Aššur, Li'tirû, [or ...]ruku[...], or their sons, [grandso]ns, [brother]s, o[r nephe]ws, or [an]y labour-duty [superior] of theirs, who comes forward and institutes a lawsuit or…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[mman-nu]—ki*-i—aš*-[šur mli-iʾ-ti-ru-u] / [mx x x]-ri ú-⸢piš*⸣-[ma mA-a.a] / [TAv pa-ni]-šú-nu ina ŠÀ 02 MA.⸢NA⸣ [KUG.UD TI-qi] / [kas-pu] ⸢ga⸣-mur ta-ad-din ⸢A.ŠÀ⸣ [É GIŠ.SAR] / [šu-a-tú] ⸢za⸣-rip laq-⸢qi tú-a-ru⸣ / [de-e]-nu DUG₄.⸢DUG₄ la⸣-áš-šú / [man-nu šá ina] ⸢ma⸣-te-e*-ma ina EGIR-kàt* / [UD-me šá e]-la-an-ni lu-u mdPA—BÀD—PAB / [lu-u mman-nu*]—ki-i—⸢aš-šur⸣ lu-u mli-iʾ-ti-ru-u / [lu-u mx…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335379.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335379). 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/P335379/.
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