Position in chronology
SAA 06 349. A Fragmentary Purchase Document of Remanni-Adad (ADD 0596)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(Beginning destroyed) (1) [Remanni-Adad, chariot driver o]f the ki[ng of Assyria, has contracted and bought (said property) fro]m [these gentlemen for x minas of silver]. (3) The money [is paid completely]. (Break) (r 1) [whether ..., their sons, grandsons o]r brothers, (who) seeks a law[suit] or litigation [against Remanni]-Adad and his sons [and grandsons, sh]all pay [x minas of silver and x mi]nas of gold to Ištar [residing in Nineveh, and sh]all return the money tenfold [to its owners]. He shall contest in his lawsuit [and not succeed]. (r 7) [Witness Ner]gal-šarru-uṣur, chariot [driver]. (r 8) [Witness ...-r]emanni, [chariot driver]. (r 9) [Witness Sakkan]nu, [chariot driver]. (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[LÚ.DIB—KUŠ.PA-MEŠ] ⸢ša* MAN*⸣ [KUR—aš-šur] / [ina ŠÀ x MA.NA KUG.UD] ⸢TA*⸣ IGI* [LÚ-MEŠ-e] / [an-nu-te il-qi] ⸢kas*⸣-pu* [gam-mur ta-din] / [DUMU—DUMU-MEŠ-šú-nu] ⸢lu⸣-u PAB-MEŠ-šú-nu ša de-[nu] / [DUG₄.DUG₄ TAv mrém-a]-⸢ni*⸣—dIM ù DUMU-MEŠ-⸢šú⸣ / [DUMU—DUMU-MEŠ]-⸢šú⸣ ub-ta-ʾu-u-ni / [x MA.NA KUG.UD x MA].⸢NA⸣ KUG.GI a-na dIŠ.TAR / [a-ši-bat URU.NINA.KI] ⸢SUM⸣-an kas-pu [a]-⸢na⸣ 10-MEŠ / [a-na…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335516.
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/P335516/..
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/P335516/.
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