Position in chronology
SAA 14 190. Bel-Harran-belu-uṣur Buys an Estate of 30 Hectares (ADD 1181)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Instead of his seal [he impressed his fingernail]. (2) Fingernail of Upaq, [owner of the field being sold]. (fingernail impressions) (3) An estate of 30 hectares [of field ...] of Ašš[ur-...] — (5) Bel-Harra[n-beli-uṣur, ...] of [... has contracted and bought it fo]r [......]. (8) That [estate] is purchased and acq[uired]. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litiga[tion] is void. (10) Whoever in the future, at any time, lodges a complaint, whether U[paq] or his sons or his brothers or any relative of his or his prefect or his labour-duty superior, and seeks a lawsuit or litigation against Bel-Harran-beli-uṣur or [his son] (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/P335961/
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Transliteration
ku-um NA₄.KIŠIB-šú [ṣu-pur-šú GAR] / ṣu-pur mu-paq [EN A.ŠÀ SUM-ni] / É 30 ANŠE [A.ŠÀ x x x] / ša mAN.⸢ŠÁR⸣—[x x x ú-piš-ma] / mEN—⸢KASKAL⸣—[EN—PAB LÚ.x x x] / ša [x x x x x x x x] / ⸢x⸣+[x (x)] ina ⸢ŠÀ?⸣ [x x x x x x] / [É] šu-a-tú* za-rip ⸢laq⸣-[qi] / tu-a-ru de-e-nu DUG₄.⸢DUG₄⸣ / la-a-šú man-nu šá ina ur-kiš / ina mat-e-ma i-za-qu-pa-ni / lu mu-[paq] lu-u DUMU-MEŠ-šú / lu-u ŠEŠ-MEŠ-šú lu…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335961.
Attribution
Image: BM 099133 + (British Museum, London, UK) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335961). 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/P335961/.
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