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SAA 14 207. Nabu-šumu-ibni Buys Land and People (ADD 0417)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) [The money is p]aid [completely]. That field, house, threshing floor, garden and people are [purchased] and acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is void. (4) Whoever in the future, at any time, whether Aššur-zeru-ibni or his sons or his grandsons or his brothers, seeks a lawsuit or litigation against Nabû-šumu-ibni and his sons, (r 1) shall give 5 minas of refined silver (and) 2 minas of pure gold to Ninurta, shall give one talent of tin to the governor of his city, and shall return the money tenfold to its owners. He shall contest in his lawsuit and not succeed. (r 6) Witness Bulalu, physician. (r 7) [Witness NN], scribe. (r 8) [Witness NN], merchant. (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/P335360/
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Transliteration
[kas-pu gam-mur] ⸢ta*⸣-ad-⸢din*⸣ [o*] / A.ŠÀ É ad-ru GIŠ.SAR UN-MEŠ šú-a-⸢tú*⸣ [za-ar-pu] / laq-qí-u tu-a-ru de-e-nu / DUG₄.DUG₄ la-áš-šú man-nu šá ina ur-kiš / ina ma-te-e-ma lu-u maš-šur—NUMUN—DÙ / lu-u DUMU-MEŠ-šú lu-u DUMU—DUMU-MEŠ-šú / lu-u ŠEŠ-MEŠ-šú TAv mdPA—MU*—DÙ / ù DUMU-MEŠ-šú de-e-nu DUG₄.DUG₄ / ub-ta-ʾu-u-ni / 05 MA.NA KUG.UD LUḪ-u 02 MA.NA KUG.GI / sak-ru a-na dMAŠ SUM-an / 01 GÚ.UN…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335360.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335360). 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/P335360/.
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