Position in chronology
SAA 14 275. Purchase of Land (ADD 0523)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) of field [...] adjoining the wadi [...]. (3) An estate of 1 hectare of fi[eld ...] adjoining the house of Ba[...] — (5) [NN] has con[tract]ed for 100 [... of copper]. (7) The money is [paid] compl[etely]. That [... is purchased and acquired]. (Break) (r 1) a talent of tin t[o ...] (r 2) [and shall return] the money tenfold [to its owner. He shall contest] in his lawsuit [and not succeed]. (r 4) Witness Aššur-taqqinanni, [...]. (r 5) Witness Ezi-[...]. (r 6) Witness [...]. (r 7) Witness [...]. (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/P335460/
Why it matters
Transliteration
ša A.ŠÀ? [x x x x x] / SUḪUR na-ḫal [x x x x x] / É 01 ANŠE A.[ŠÀ x x x x x] / SUḪUR É? mba?-[x x x] / ú-⸢piš-ma⸣ m⸢ḫu⸣-[x x x x] / ina ŠÀ-bi 01 me [x x URUDU-MEŠ] / kas-pu ga-[mur ta-din x x x] / šu-a-tú [x x x x] / GÚ.UN AN.NA a-⸢na⸣ [x x x x x] / kas-pu a-na 10-MEŠ [x x x x x x] / a-na de-ni-šú [x x x x x x] / IGI maš-šur—LAL-a-ni [x x x x] / IGI me-zi—[x x x x] / IGI md[x x x x x] / IGI m[x x x x x x]
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335460.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335460). 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/P335460/.
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