Position in chronology
SAA 06 308. Remanni-Adad Buys [...] (668?) (ADD 1155)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(Beginning destroyed) (1) [Remanni-Adad, chief chariot driver, has contracted and bought it from Da]dî [for ......]. (3) The money [is paid] com[pletely. Any revocation, lawsuit], or litigation is v[oid]. (5) [Whoever] in the future, at an[y time, whe]ther [Dadd]î or [his] sons [o]r brothers, or [his ...] or any relative of his, [whoever lodges a complaint and seeks a] law[suit or litigation] against Remanni-Adad, [his sons and grand]sons, (12) shall place [x minas of silver] and one mina of gold in the lap of Mullissu, shall tie two white horses to the feet of Aššur, and shall return the…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[x x x x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x x x x x] / [TAv IGI mda?]-⸢di?⸣-i [ina ŠÀ x x x x] / [il-qi] kas-pu ⸢ga*⸣-[mur ta-din tu-a-ru] / [de-nu] DUG₄.DUG₄ la-[áš-šú] / [man-nu šá] ina ur-kiš ina [ma-te-ma] / [lu-u mU.U?]-i lu-u DUMU-[MEŠ-šú] / ⸢lu⸣-u ŠEŠ-ME-šú lu LÚ.[x x x] / ⸢lu⸣-u ⸢mám*⸣-ma*-nu-šú ša ⸢x⸣+[x x x] / [man-nu] ša TAv mrém-a-ni—dIM / [DUMU-MEŠ-šú DUMU]—DUMU-MEŠ-šú / [de-nu DUG₄.DUG₄ ub]-⸢ta⸣-u*-ni /…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335937.
Attribution
Image: BM 099002 (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335937). 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/P335937/.
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