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SAA 06 339. Remanni-Adad Buys Land (ADD 0408)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (3) [Remanni-Adad], chief [chariot driver of Assu]rbani[pal, king of Assyr]ia, [has contracted and bo]ught it for 1/2 mi[na of silver]. (7) The money [is pa]id compl[etely]. The land is purchased [and acquired]. (8) [Whoever] in the future, at any time, breaks the contr[act, whether] the[se men] or their sons, and seeks a law[suit or litigation] agai[nst Remanni-Adad], his sons and grandsons, [shall ret]urn the mon[ey tenfol]d [to] its [owne]rs. [He shall con]test [in his lawsuit] and not succeed. (r 2) [Witness Nergal-šarru]-uṣur, chief 'third man.' (r 3) [Witness…
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/P335351/
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Transliteration
[x x x x x x x x x x x] PAB / [x x x x x x x x x x x] MAN / [ú-piš-ma mrém-an-ni—dIM LÚ.DIB—PA]-MEŠ* dan*-nu / [ša maš]-⸢šur*⸣—DÙ*—[A LUGAL KUR—aš-šur].KI / ina ŠÀ-bi 1/2 MA.NA [KUG.UD] ⸢il⸣-qi / gas-pu ga-⸢mur⸣ [ta]-⸢ad⸣-din / A.ŠÀ za-ar-pi [laq-qi* man-nu] ša ina ur*-⸢kiš*⸣ / ina ma-te-ma i-GIL-u-[ni lu-u LÚ]-MEŠ an-nu-⸢ti⸣ / lu-u DUMU-MEŠ-šú-⸢nu⸣ ša* ⸢TAv⸣ [mrém-an-ni—dIM] / DUMU-MEŠ-šú…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335351.
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/P335351/..
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/P335351/.
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