Position in chronology
SAA 14 189. Barruqu Buys […] (ADD 0483)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(Beginning destroyed) (2) [The money] is paid [completely. That ... is purc]hased and acquired. [Any revocation, law]suit, or litig[ation is void]. (5) [Whoever] in the future, [at any time], lodg[es] a complaint and breaks the contract, [whether] Marduk-šarru-uṣur or [his sons] (or) his grandsons o[r ...], [and seeks] a lawsuit or [litigation] aga[inst] Ba[rr]uqu (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ qi ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] / [x x] ta-din LÚv.[x x] / [x x x za]-rip laq-qi [tu-a-ru] / [de]-e-nu DUG₄.[DUG₄ la-áš-šú] / [man-nu] šá ina ur-kiš [ina ma-te-ma] / i-za-qu-pa-[an-ni] / i-GIL-u-ni [lu-u] / mdŠÚ—MAN—PAB lu-u [DUMU-MEŠ-šú] / DUMU—DUMU-MEŠ-šú ⸢lu⸣-[u x x x x] / šá de-e-nu [DUG₄.DUG₄] / ⸢TA⸣ m⸢bar-ruq?⸣
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335422.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Raija Mattila, Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part II: Assurbanipal Through Sin-šarru-iškun (State Archives of Assyria, 14), 2002. Lemmatised by Melanie Groß, 2010–2011, as part of the FWF-funded research project "Royal Institutional Households in First Millennium BC Mesopotamia" (S 10802-G18) directed by Heather D. Baker at the University of Vienna. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P335422/..
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/P335422/.
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