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SAA 14 197. Kandalanu Buys [... ] (ADD 0500)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) [...... is pur]chased and acquired. Any revocation, [lawsuit, or li]tigation is void. (2) Whoever [in the future, at any t]ime, whether those men [or] their [son]s or their grandsons [or] their [brothers] or their labour-duty superior, seeks a [la]wsuit or litigation against Kandalanu [and] his [son]s and his grandsons (and) his brothers ((a lawsuit or litigation)), (9) shall place one mina of refined silver (and) one mina of pure gold in the lap of Adad residing in Dur-Illil, shall give one talent of tin to the chief cupbearer, and shall return the money tenfold to…
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/P335438/
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Transliteration
[x x x x x (x) za]-rip TI-qí tu-a-ru o* / [de-e-nu] ⸢DUG₄*⸣.DUG₄ la-áš-šú man-nu šá o* / [ina ur-kiš ina ma]-te-e-ma lu-u LÚ*.ERIM-MEŠ šú-nu-te / [lu-u DUMU]-⸢MEŠ*⸣-šú-nu lu-u DUMU—DUMU-šu-nu / [lu-u PAB-MEŠ]-šú-nu lu-u EN—il-ki-šú-nu / [ša de]-⸢e⸣-nu DUG₄.DUG₄ TA! mka-da-la-ni / [ù DUMU]-MEŠ-šú u DUMU—DUMU-MEŠ-šú PAB-MEŠ-šú / ⸢de-e⸣-nu DUG₄.DUG₄ ub-ta-ʾu-u-ni / 01 MA.NA KUG.UD LUḪ-ú 01 MA.NA…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335438.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335438). 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/P335438/.
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