SAA 06 298. Partial Duplicate of the Previous Text (671) (ADD 0503)

~700 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P335441

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 6

High confidence

(Beginning destroyed) (2) [Those ... are purchased and acquired. Any revocation], lawsuit, or litigation is v[oid]. (3) Whoever in the future, at any ti[me], lodges a complaint or se[eks] a law[suit] or litigation, whether Deti-Bel-allaka or his son, grandson, brothers, or nephews, (9) whoever seeks a lawsuit or litigation against Remanni-Adad, his son and grandson, shall place [x] minas of refined silver and 5 minas of pure gold in the lap of Ninurta residing in Calah, and shall return the money tenfold to its owners. He shall contest in his lawsuit and not succeed. The king shall be his…

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

Transliteration

[x]+⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] / de-e-nu DUG₄.DUG₄ ⸢la⸣-[áš-šú] / man-nu ša ur-kiš a-na ma-⸢te⸣-[ma] / i-za-qu-⸢pa⸣-a-ni de-[e-nu] / DUG₄.DUG₄ ub-ta-ú-[ni] / lu-u mde-ti—EN—DU*-⸢ka*⸣ / lu-u DUMU-<šú> lu-u DUMU—DUMU-⸢šú⸣ / lu-u ŠEŠ-MEŠ-šú lu-u ⸢DUMU⸣—ŠEŠ-[MEŠ-šú] / ša TAv* mrém-a-ni—dIM / DUMU-šú DUMU—DUMU-šú de-e-nu / DUG₄.DUG₄ ub-ta-ú-ni / [x] MA.NA KUG.UD ⸢LUḪ-ú⸣ 05 MA.NA / ⸢KUG⸣.GI sa-⸢ak-ru⸣ ina…

Scholarly note

Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335441.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335441). 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/P335441/.

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