Position in chronology
SAA 14 175. Manageress of the Central City Buys Land (ADD 0339)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) [adjoining] an al[ley ...]. (2) [An estate of x hectares] and 2 decares, a garden [...] — (3) [NN], the harem manageress of [the central city harem], has contracted and bought it from Lu-te[...] for 5 minas and 10 she[kels of silver]. (7) The money [is paid] completely. That estate is purc[hased and acquired. Any rev]ocation, lawsuit, or litig[ation is void]. (r 2) [Whoever] breaks the contract, whether L[u-te...], whether his sons, whether his [grandsons], whether his brothers, whether [his nephews, and seeks a lawsuit or] litig[ation] against [NN], (r 7) [shall…
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/P335283/
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Transliteration
[SUḪUR] su-⸢qa⸣-[qi x x x x] / [É x ANŠE] 2(bán) GIŠ.SAR [x x x x x] / ú-piš-ma MÍ.[x x x x] / LÚ.šá-kín-te ša ⸢URU⸣.[MURUB₄—URU] / TA IGI mlu-te-⸢x⸣+[x x x] / ina ŠÀ 05* MA.NA 10 ⸢GÍN⸣-[MEŠ KUG.UD] / il-qi kas-pu gam-⸢mur⸣ [ta-din] / É šu-a-tú za-⸢ri?⸣-[ip laq-qi] / [tu]-a-ru de-nu DUG₄.[DUG₄ la-áš-šú] / [man-nu] šá GIL-u-ni lu-u m⸢lu⸣-[te-x x x] / lu-u DUMU-MEŠ-šú lu-u [DUMU—DUMU-MEŠ-šú] / lu…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335283.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) ? — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335283). 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/P335283/.
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