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SAA 06 238. A Court Decision Regarding an Estate of Silim-Aššur (ADD 0168)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) [The judgement which] the vizier and the sartinnu imposed [upon ...]... [......]. (4) [...] refused [the ordeal and] forfeited [two estates of x hect]ares of land, those of [S]ilim-Aššur and Ahuaya in Issete and the village of Ahunu. (8) Peace is between them. Neither shall litigate against the other. (9) Whoever breaks the agreement, the king and the crown prince shall be his prosecutors. He shall pay [x minas of] silver and shall [return the money tenfold] to its owner. (r 1) [Witness NN. Witness ...]anni, ditto. (r 2) [Witness NN, ditto. Witness NN], ditto. (r 3) [Witness NN, ditto.…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[de-e-nu ša] SUKKAL* sar-tin / [a-na mx x x]-MAŠ / [x x x x x x] ⸢e⸣-me-du-u-ni / [x x ḫur-sa-an] ⸢i⸣-tu-ra / [x x x] ⸢ANŠE⸣ A.ŠÀ ú-ta-me / ⸢ša⸣ [m]⸢si⸣-lim—aš-šur ša m⸢PAB⸣-u-a.a / ina URU.01-tú URU*.ŠE*—m*a*-ḫu*-u-ni / DI-mu ina bir-ti-šú-nu mám-ma mám-ma / la DUG₄.DUG₄ man-nu ša i-GIL-u-ni / ⸢LUGAL*⸣ u* DUMU—LUGAL lu-u EN-de-ni-šú / [x MA.NA] ⸢KUG*⸣.UD* SUM-an / [kas-pu a-na 10-MEŠ] ⸢a⸣-na…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335119.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Theodore Kwasman and Simo Parpola , Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part I: Tiglath-Pileser III through Esarhaddon (State Archives of Assyria, 6), 1991. Lemmatised by Melanie Groß, 2010–2011, as part of the FWF-funded research project "Royal Institutional Households in First Millennium BC Mesopotamia" (S 10802-G18) directed by Heather D. Baker at the University of Vienna. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P335119/..
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/P335119/.
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