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SAA 06 340. Remanni-Adad Buys Land, Gardens and People (ADD 0372)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) [the fields, gardens and peop]le are acquired [and purchased. Any revocation, lawsuit] or litigation is void. (3) [Whoever in the future], at any time, [whether NN], or his sons grandsons, brothers or [nephews] comes forward [and seeks a law]suit or litigation [against Remanni-A]dad, and his sons [and grandsons, saying]: (9) "The money is not completely [paid, the field]s, gar[de]ns and [people are] not [acquired and purchased]," (Break) (r 1) [shall return the money ten]fold [to its owner. He shall contest] in [his] non-lawsuit [and not] succeed. (r 4) [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/P335316/
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Transliteration
[A.ŠÀ-MEŠ GIŠ.SAR-MEŠ UN]-MEŠ za-⸢ár-pu⸣ [o] / [la-qi-u tu-a-ru] ⸢de⸣-nu* DUG₄.DUG₄ la-áš-šú / [man-nu šá ina ur-kiš] ina ma-te-ma / [lu-u mx x x x lu]-u DUMU-MEŠ-šú / [lu-u DUMU—DUMU-MEŠ-šú] lu-u PAB-MEŠ-šú / [lu-u DUMU—PAB-MEŠ-šú ša e]-la-an-ni / [TAv mrém-an-ni—d]IM DUMU-MEŠ-šú / [DUMU—DUMU-MEŠ-šú de]-nu DUG₄.DUG₄ / [ub-ta-u-ni ma-a] kas-pu la gam-mur / [la ta-ad-din A.ŠÀ]-⸢MEŠ*⸣…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335316.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335316). 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/P335316/.
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