SAA 06 131. A Fragmentary Purchase Document (695-XI) (ADD 0569)

~700 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P335495

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 6

High confidence

(Beginning destroyed) (r 1) [He shall] p[ay x minas] of silver (and) one mina of gol[d to] Ninurta residing in Calah, [and shall return] the money tenfold to its [owners]. He shall cont[est] in his lawsuit [and] not succeed. (r 6) Witness Himarî, [...]. (r 7) Witness Urda-ilani, [...]. (r 8) Witness Inurta-kibsi-u[ṣur, ...] of the governor. (r 10) Witness Tabli[...]. (r 11) Month Shebat (XI), [...]th day, eponym year of Aššur-be[lu-uṣur], governor of [Šahuppa]. (r 14) Witness Nušku-il[a'i ...].

State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).

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Transliteration

[x MA.NA] KUG.UD 01 MA.NA KUG.⸢GI⸣ / [a-na d]MAŠ a-šib URU.kàl-ḫi ⸢SUM⸣-[an] / kas-pu a-na 10-MEŠ-te a-na ⸢EN⸣-[MEŠ-šú] / [GUR] ina de-ni-šú DUG₄.DUG₄-[ma] / la i-laq-[qi] / IGI mḫi-ma-ri-i LÚv.[x x] / IGI mARAD—DINGIR-MEŠ-ni [LÚv.x x] / IGI mdMAŠ—kib-su—⸢PAB⸣ [LÚv.x x] / ša LÚv.EN.NAM / IGI mtab-li-[x x] / ITI.ZÍZ UD [x-KAM] / lim-me maš-šur—⸢EN⸣—[PAB] / LÚv.GAR.KUR [URU.šá-ḫup-pa] / IGI mdPA.TÚG—⸢DINGIR*⸣-[a.a]

Scholarly note

Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335495.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335495). 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/P335495/.

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