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SAA 14 002. Milki-nuri Buys the Village of Bahaya (666-XII-19) (ADD 0627)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Seal of Atar-ili, team commander, owner of the village being sold. (cylinder seal impression) (3) The village of Bahaya in its entirety including its fields and 1 farmer with his people in the district of Lahiru — (6) Milki-nuri, [eunuch of] the queen, [has contracted and bought it from A]tar-ili [for x minas of silver (by the mina) of] Carchemish. (10) [The money] is paid [comple]tely. [That village is purchased and] acquired. [Any revocation, lawsuit] or litigation [is void]. (Break) (r 1) [Witness NN, ...]. (r 2) [Witness NN], chief tai[lor]. (r 3) [Witness ...]-uṣur, treasurer. (r 4)…
Source: Mattila, R. 2002. Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part II: Assurbanipal through Sin-šarru-iškun. SAA 14. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa14/P335542/
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Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB ma-tar—DINGIR LÚv.GAL—ú-rat / EN URU ta-da-ni / URU.ŠE—mba-ḫa-a.a a-na gi-mir-ti-šú / a-di A.ŠÀ-MEŠ-šú 01 LÚv.ENGAR a-di UN-MEŠ-šú ina ŠÀ / ⸢na⸣-gi-e KUR.la-ḫi-ra / [ú-piš-ma] mmil-ki—ZÁLAG / [LÚv.SAG ša] MÍ—É.GAL / [TAv IGI ma]-tar—DINGIR / [ina ŠÀ x MA KUG.UD šá] ⸢URU⸣.gar-ga-mis / [il-qi kas-pu gam]-⸢mur⸣ ta-din / [URU.ŠE šú-a-tú za-rip] laq-qi / [tu-a-ru de-e-nu] DUG₄.⸢DUG₄⸣ o /…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335542.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) ? — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335542). source
Translation excerpted from Mattila, R. 2002. Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part II: Assurbanipal through Sin-šarru-iškun. SAA 14. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa14/P335542/.
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