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SAA 06 212. A Broken Purchase Document of Mannu-ki-Arbail (676-I-25) (ADD 0502)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) Whoever i[n the future, at any time, comes forward], whether Kiṣ[ir-Issar or] his [so]ns or relatives, [whoever lodges a comp]laint and seeks a lawsuit or litigation against Mannu-ki-Ar[bail and] his [son]s, [shall ret]ur[n] the money tenfold [to its owners. He shall contest] in his lawsuit [and no]t succeed. (r 2) [Witness Mannu]-ki-ahhe, conscri[pt]. (r 3) [Witness Man]nu-ki-abi, conscript. (r 4) [Witness] Zar-Issar. (r 5) [Witness] Nabû-šumu-iddina, keeper of the tablet. (r 6) [Month Ni]san (I), 25th day, year 5 [of Esarh]addon, king of Assyria, eponym year of Banb[â, the second vizier]. (Rest destroyed)
Source: 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/P335440/
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Transliteration
[x x] ⸢man-nu šá⸣ ina* ⸢ur*⸣-[kiš ina ma-te-ma] / [e-la]-an-ni lu-u mki-⸢ṣir⸣—[d15] / [lu-u DUMU]-MEŠ-šú lu-u mám-ma-nu-šu [o] / [šá i-za]-⸢qup*⸣-an-ni TAv mman-nu—ki—⸢arba⸣-[ìl] / [u DUMU]-⸢MEŠ*⸣-šú* de-e-nu DUG₄.⸢DUG₄⸣ / [ub-ta]-⸢ʾu⸣-u-ni kas-pu 10-TA.ÀM / [a-na EN-MEŠ-šú] ⸢GUR*-ra⸣ ina de-ni-šú / [DUG₄.DUG₄-ma] ⸢la⸣ i-laq-qí / [IGI mman-nu]—ki-i—PAB-MEŠ ⸢LÚ.rak*⸣-[su] / [IGI mman]-nu—ki-i—AD…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335440.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335440). 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/P335440/.
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