Position in chronology
SAA 06 299. A Purchase Document of Remanni-Adad (c. 671-669) (ADD 0477)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(Beginning destroyed) (1) [Remanni-Adad has contracted and] bought (said property) fo[r x minas of silver (by the mina) of Carchemish]. (2) The mo[ne]y [is paid] completely. Those [...... are purch]ased and acquired. [Any revocation], lawsuit, or litigation is void. (4) Who[ever in the future], at any time lodges a complaint and breaks the contract, whether Šamaš-ahu-uṣur or his sons, grandsons, brothers, or nephews, or his relative, or his prefect or labour-duty superior, and seeks a lawsuit or litigation against Reman[ni]-Adad and his sons and grandsons, (12) shall place 5 minas of refined…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
ina* ⸢ŠÀ*⸣ [x MA.NA KUG.UD šá URU.gar-ga-mis] / TI-⸢qí kas-pu⸣ gam-mur [ta-din x x x x] / šu-⸢a-tú⸣ [zar]-⸢pu⸣ TI-ú [tu-a-ru] / de-⸢e⸣-nu DUG₄.DUG₄ la-áš-šú man-⸢nu⸣ [šá ur-kiš] / ina ⸢ma⸣-te-ma ⸢i⸣-zaq-qup-an-ni GIL-u-[ni] / lu-u md⸢UTU⸣—PAB—PAB lu-u DUMU-MEŠ-šu* / lu-u ⸢DUMU—DUMU⸣-MEŠ-šú lu-u PAB-MEŠ-šú lu-u DUMU—PAB-MEŠ-šú / lu-u mám-ma-nu-šú lu-u LÚv.GAR-nu-šú ⸢lu⸣-u / EN—⸢il⸣-ki-šú šá TAv…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335416.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335416). 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/P335416/.
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