Position in chronology
SAA 14 266. Fragment of a Conveyance Text (ADD 0466)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) [...... has bought] for 1 1/2 minas of s[ilver f]rom these men. (r 2) [The money] is paid [completely]. [That] garden [is purchased and acquired. Any revocation], lawsuit, or lit[igation is void]. (r 4) [Whoever in the future], at any time, [lodges a complaint, shall return the money tenfold to its] owners. (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/P335405/
Why it matters
Transliteration
[x x x x x x] DINGIR [x x x x] / [x x x x ina] ŠÀ 01 1/2 MA.NA ⸢KUG⸣.[UD] / ⸢TAv⸣ pa-an LÚ-MEŠ-e an-nu-[te il-qi] / [kas-pu gam-mur] ta-din GIŠ.SAR [šu-a-tu] / [za-rip laq-qi tu-a-ru] de-e-nu ⸢DUG₄⸣.[DUG₄] / [la-áš-šú man-nu šá ina ur-kiš] ina ma-te-e-ma [i-GIL-u-ni] / [kas-pu a-na 10-MEŠ-te a-na] EN-MEŠ-[šú GUR-ra]
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335405.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335405). 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/P335405/.
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