SAA 06 207. Mannu-ki-Arbail Purchases Land (678-II-21) (ADD 1240)

~700 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P336003

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 6

High confidence

(Beginning destroyed) (1) [Mannu-ki-Arbail has purchased and acquired it from S]il[u] for [......]. (3) [The mo]ney is p[aid] completely. That [fi]eld is purch[ased and acq]uired. Any revocation, la[wsuit, or liti]gation is voi[d]. (7) [Who]ever in the fu[tu]re, whether Silu or his sons, seeks a lawsuit or li[tigation] against Mannu-ki-A[rbail, shall place] 10 minas of [pure] sil[ver] in the lap of [DN]. He shall lit[igate] in his lawsuit [and not succeed]. (r 7) Witness Si[...]. (r 8) Witness [NN]. (Break) (e. 1) Month Iyyar (II), 21st day, eponym year of [Nergal-šarru-uṣur], chief [cupbearer].

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

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Transliteration

[x x x] ⸢x⸣ [x x x x] / [TA IGI m]⸢x x-lu⸣ [il-qi] / [kas]-pu* ga-mur* ⸢ta*⸣-[din] / [A].ŠÀ šu-a-te za-⸢rip⸣ / [la]-⸢qi*⸣ tu-a-ru ⸢de⸣-[nu] / ⸢DUG₄⸣.DUG₄ la-áš-[šú] / ⸢man⸣-nu šá ina ⸢ur-kiš⸣ [o] / lu-u m*si-i-lu* [o] / ⸢lu⸣-u DUMU-MEŠ-šú [o] / ⸢ša*⸣ de-e-nu ⸢DUG₄⸣.[DUG₄] / TAv mman-nu—ki—⸢arba*⸣-[ìl] / ub-ta-u-[ni] / 10 MA.NA KUG.⸢UD⸣ [LUḪ-u] / ina bur-ki ⸢d⸣[x x GAR] / ina de-ni-šú…

Scholarly note

Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P336003.

Attribution

Image: BM 098537 (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P336003). 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/P336003/.

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