SAA 06 220. A Fragmentary Purchase Document of Mannu-ki-Arbail (ADD 0493)

~700 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P335431

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 6

High confidence

(Beginning destroyed) (r 1) [Whoever ... breaks the contract], whet[her NN or his sons], grandsons or [...], and seeks a lawsuit or litigation against Mannu-ki-Arbail [and his sons], (r 5) shall place two minas of silver and one mina of gold in the lap of Ninurta residing in Calah. He shall return the money tenfold to its owners. He shall contest in his lawsuit and not succeed. (r 9) Witness Qurdi-Issar. Witness Ginnaya. (r 10) [Wit]ness Habasti. (r 11) [Witness] Malezazi. (r 12) [Witness] Nabû-taklak. Witness Nabû-zeru-[ka''in]. (r 13) [Witness] Nabû-belu-ka''in. Witness [NN]. (r 14) [Witness Še]p-Aššur. [...]. (Rest destroyed)

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

Transliteration

lu-[u mx x x lu-u DUMU-MEŠ-šú] / lu-u DUMU—DUMU-MEŠ-⸢šú⸣ lu-u [x x x x x] / ša TAv mman-nu—ki—arba-ìl [ù DUMU-MEŠ-šú] / de-nu* DUG₄.DUG₄ ub-ta-u-⸢ni⸣ / 02 MA.NA KUG.UD 01 MA.NA KUG.GI / ina bur-ki dMAŠ a-šib URU.kàl-ḫi GAR-an / kas-pu a-na 10-MEŠ a-na EN-MEŠ-šú GUR / ina* de-ni-šú DUG₄.DUG₄ la i-laq-qi / IGI mqur-di—d15 IGI mgi-in-na-a.a / ⸢IGI⸣ mḫa—ba-as-ti / [IGI] mma-le-e-za-zi / [IGI] mdPA—tàk-lak IGI mdPA—⸢NUMUN⸣—[GIN] / [IGI] mdPA—EN—GIN IGI m[x x x x x] / [IGI m]⸢GÌR*⸣.2*—aš-šur* [x x x x]

Scholarly note

Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335431.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) ? — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335431). 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/P335431/.

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