Position in chronology
SAA 06 124. Riba-ilani the Merchant Buys a House (698-XII-21) (ADD 0328)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) Fingernail of Mannu-ki-ahhe; fingernail of Itti-Adad-ahhutu, owners of the house being sold. The exit together with the courtyard, (fingernail impressions) (3) a built house with its beams and two doors, adjoining the houses of Nabû-duru-uṣur, Šamaš-šumu-uṣur, [Ulul]ayu, Nabû-naṣir, and Šamaš-uballiṭ — (7) Riba-ilani the merchant has contracted and bou[ght] it from Mannu-ki-ahhe [fo]r 3 2/3 minas of silver. (10) The money is paid completely. [That house] is purchased and acquired. Any revoc[ation, lawsuit], or litigation is voi[d]. (12) [Whoever in the future], at any time, wheth[er these…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
ṣu-pur mman-nu—ki—PAB-MEŠ ṣu-pur mTAv—d⸢IM*—PAB*⸣-tú / be-lí É SUM-ni mu-ṣu-ú a-di ⸢TÙR⸣ / É ep-šú a-di GIŠ.ÙR-MEŠ-šú 02 GIŠ.⸢IG⸣-MEŠ / ina ŠÀ-bi SUḪUR É mdPA—BÀD—⸢PAB⸣ / SUḪUR É mdUTU—MU—PAB SUḪUR É m⸢ITI.KIN⸣-a.a / SUḪUR É mdPA—PAB-ir SUḪUR mdUTU—⸢ú*-bal*-liṭ*⸣ / ú-piš-ma mSU—DINGIR-MEŠ-ni LÚv.⸢DAM⸣.QAR / ⸢TAv⸣ pa-an mman-nu—ki-i*—PAB-⸢MEŠ⸣ / [ina] ŠÀ 03 2/3 MA.NA KUG.UD ⸢il⸣-[qi] / kas-pu…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335272.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335272). 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/P335272/.
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