Position in chronology
SAA 14 116. Fragmentary Sales Document of [Ṣalmu]-ahhe (ADD 0562)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) [Whoever in the future, at any ti]me [lodges a complaint and break]s [the contract, whether NN] or his sons [or] his [grandson]s (or) any relative of his, and [se]eks a lawsuit or [litigation against Ṣalmu]-ahhe, [his sons (and)] his [grand]sons, (Aramaic caption: Deed of Issar-tariba.) (r 3) shall place 10 minas of [refined silver (and) x] mina of [pure] gold in the lap of Ištar [residing in Nin]eveh, and shall return the money [tenfold] to its owners. He shall contest [in his lawsuit] and not succeed. (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/P335489/
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Transliteration
[x x x x x x x x]-u?-ma / [x x x x x x x x x x]-u-ni / [x x x x x x x x] lu DUMU-MEŠ-šú / [lu-u DUMU—DUMU]-MEŠ-šú mám-ma-MEŠ-šú / [ša TAv mṣal-mu?]—PAB-MEŠ o* / [DUMU-MEŠ-šú DUMU]—DUMU-MEŠ-šú de-nu / [DUG₄.DUG₄ ub]-ta-u-ni 10 MA.NA / [KUG.UD LUḪ x] MA.NA KUG.GI o* / [sak-ru] ina bur-ki dIŠ.TAR o* / [a-ši-bat URU].⸢NINA⸣.KI GAR-an kas-pu / [a-na 10-MEŠ] a-na EN-MEŠ-šú GUR / [ina de-ni-šú] DUG₄.DUG₄-ma là TI
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335489.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335489). 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/P335489/.
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