Position in chronology
SAA 14 193. Bel-[…] Buys Land (ADD 0389)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (2) by the seah of 10 'litres' (3) [... fie]ld in exchange for (4) [... adjoining the ro]ad [that] lea[ds to] the village of Bir[tayu], (5) [...] adjoining the royal road of [...] — (6) Bel-[...] has co[ntracted and boug]ht it from these men. (7) The [mo]ney [is paid] completely. That field is purchased and acqu[ired]. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is v[oid]. (10) [Who]ever, in the future, at any time, [breaks the contract], [whet]her [th]e[se] men [o]r [their] sons [o]r [their] grandsons [o]r their brothers or any relative of [theirs], and seek[s] a lawsuit or…
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/P335333/
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Transliteration
[x x x x x x (x)] ⸢da an⸣ [x x x x] / [x x x x ina ŠÀ]-bi GIŠ.BÁN ša ⸢10⸣ [qa] / [x x x x A.ŠÀ].⸢GA⸣ a-na ša-pu-⸢su⸣ / [x x x x SUḪUR] ⸢KASKAL⸣.2* [ša a-na] URU.ŠE—bir-[x x x] / ⸢DU*⸣-[u-ni x x x] ⸢SUḪUR⸣ KASKAL.2*—LUGAL ša URU.[x x] / ú*-[piš-ma mEN-x x]+⸢x⸣ TAv IGI LÚv-MEŠ-⸢e*⸣ / šu-a-tú* ⸢il-qi kas⸣-pu ga-mur [ta-din] / A.ŠÀ šu-a-⸢tú⸣ za-rip la-[qi] / tu-a-ru de-⸢nu⸣ DUG₄.DUG₄ ⸢la*⸣-[áš-šú] /…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335333.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335333). 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/P335333/.
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