Position in chronology
SAA 14 022. Ninuayu Buys Land and People (ADD 0505)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) [(NN has contracted and) bo]ught from Nabû-[...]. (3) The mon[ey is paid completely]. [That field] and people [are acquired and purchas]ed. (Break) (r 1) [whether] Na[bû-...] or his sons [se]eks [a lawsuit or litigation against] Ninua[yu, and his brothers] (r 4) [saying "..]... ...[..."], (r 6) [shall give x] mina of gold t[o ...] (r 7) [and shall return] the money [tenfold to its owner]. (Rest destroyed)
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/P335443/
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Transliteration
[x x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x x x x] / [TAv] IGI mdPA-[x x x] / ⸢il*⸣-qi* kas-[pu gam-mur ta-din] / [A.ŠÀ] ⸢UN*⸣-MEŠ [šu-a-te zar-pu] / [laq-qi]-ú [x x x x x x] / [x x x m]⸢d*PA*⸣-[x x x x] / ⸢DUMU*⸣-MEŠ-šú [šá de-nu DUG₄.DUG₄] / [TAv m]ni-nu-a.[a ù ŠEŠ-MEŠ-šú] / [ub]-ta-u-ni [ma-a x x x x] / [x x]-⸢a*⸣-a* ta-da-[x x x x] / [x] MA.NA KUG.GI ⸢a*⸣-[na x x x x] / [kas]-⸢pu*⸣ a-na [x x x x x]
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335443.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335443). 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/P335443/.
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