Position in chronology
SAA 14 188. Bardi Buys a House and a Vacant Lot (ADD 0357)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) Bar[dî has contracted] and bought it [fr]om B[el-šar]ru-uṣur f[o]r 5 1/2 m[in]as of silver by the mina of the king. (4) The money is paid compl[etely]. That house and vacant lot are purchased and acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is void. (8) Whoever in the future, at any time, whether Bel-šarru-uṣur or his sons or his grandsons or his brothers or his nephews, seeks a lawsuit or litigation against Bardî, his sons and his grandsons, (r 1) shall place one mina of refined silver (and) one mina of pure gold in the lap of Ištar (residing in) Nineveh, and…
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/P335301/
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Transliteration
[ú-piš]-ma mbar*-[di]-⸢i⸣ / [TAv] IGI m⸢EN—MAN⸣—PAB ⸢ina⸣ [ŠÀ]-bi / 05 1/2 ⸢MA.NA KUG⸣.UD ina 01* MA*.NA* ša MAN / il-qí kas-pu gam-[mur] ta-din / É kaq-qi-ri pu-ṣe-e šu-a-tú / zar-pu la-qi-u tu-a-ru / de-e-nu DUG₄.DUG₄ la-áš-šú / man-nu ša ina ur-kiš ina ma-te-ma / lu mEN—MAN—PAB lu DUMU-MEŠ-šú / lu DUMU—DUMU-MEŠ-šú lu PAB-MEŠ-šú / lu DUMU—PAB-MEŠ-šú ša de-nu / DUG₄.DUG₄ TA mbar-di-i /…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335301.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335301). 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/P335301/.
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