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SAA 06 290. Duplicate of the Preceding Text (670) (ADD 0199)
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High confidence(1) Instead of his seal he impressed his fingernail. (blank seal space) (2) Fingernail of Aššur-naṣir, owner of the man. Ahu-le'iti, his servant — (3) Šamaš-abu-uṣur has contracted and bought him from Aššur-naṣir for 50 minas of copper. (5) The money is paid completely. That man is purchased and acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit or litigation is void. (8) [Whoever in the] future, at any time, [whether Aššur-na]ṣir or his sons [or brothers o]r his governor, s[eeks a lawsuit or litigation against] Šamaš-abu-uṣur, [his sons and grandsons, shall place x minas of refined silver and one mina of pure g]old (Break) (r 1) [eponym year of Šulmu-beli-lašme, governor of] De[r]. (r 2) [x minas of cop]per for [his] fingernail.
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/P335146/
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Transliteration
ku-um NA₄.KIŠIB-šú ṣu-⸢pur⸣-šú GAR-⸢un⸣ / ṣu-pur maš-šur—PAB-ir EN LÚ mPAB—le-⸢ʾi-ti⸣ / ARAD-šú ú-piš-ma mdUTU—AD—PAB / TAv IGI maš-šur—PAB-ir ina ŠÀ 50 MA.NA / URUDU-MEŠ is-si-qí kas-pu gam-mur / ta-ad-din LÚ šu-a-tú za-rip ⸢TI⸣-qí / ⸢GUR⸣ de-e-nu DUG₄.DUG₄ la-áš-šú / [man-nu šá ina] ⸢ur⸣-kiš ina ma-te-ma / [lu-u maš-šur—PAB]-ir lu-u DUMU-MEŠ-šú / [lu-u ŠEŠ-MEŠ-šú] ⸢lu⸣-u LÚ.EN.NAM-su / [ša…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335146.
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/P335146/..
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/P335146/.
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