Position in chronology
SAA 14 217. Šamaš-na’id Buys [... ] (ADD 0554)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) [Šamaš-na'id, ... has contra]cted [(and bought) fro]m Ba[lṭaya, for] one mina [......] (Break) (r 1) [......] whether (r 2) [......] seeks [a lawsuit or litigation against] Šamaš-na'id, (r 4) [shall plac]e [x minas] of silver (and) one mina [gold in the lap of] Ištar of [...], (r 6) [shall give] 1 talent of t[in to] the governor of [his] ci[ty], (r 8) [and shall return the money] tenfold [to] its [owner]s. (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/P335483/
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Transliteration
[ú-piš]-ma md[UTU—I x x x] / [TAv pa]-an m⸢bal⸣-[ṭa-a.a] / [ina ŠÀ-bi] 01 MA.NA* [x x x x] / [x x x x x] lu-u / [x x x x x TAv] mdUTU—I [de-nu] / [DUG₄.DUG₄] ub-ta-u-[ni] / [x MA.NA] KUG.UD 01 MA.NA [KUG.GI] / [ina bur-ki d]15 ša URU.[x x x] / [GAR]-⸢an⸣ 01 GÚ.UN [AN.NA] / [a-na LÚ].EN.NAM ⸢URU⸣-[šú SUM-an] / [kas-pu a]-na 10-[MEŠ-te] / [a-na EN]-MEŠ-[šú GUR x x]
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335483.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) ? — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335483). 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/P335483/.
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