Position in chronology
SAA 14 396. Purchase of Land (Iraq 32 05)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) adjo[ining ......], (2) [adjoining ......], (3) adjo[ining ......], (4) adjoi[ning ... Q]ibit-[...], (5) adjo[ining ... of] the palace, ...[...] (6) on the road of Urzâ [...] (7) [o]f the servant quarters of the pal[ace ......] (8) [fo]r 12 ...[...] he has bought. (r 1) The mone[y is paid completely]. Tha[t] house [...... is purchased and acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation] is void. (r 4) [Whoever .......], whether Nabû-[..., ......, seeks] a lawsu[it or litigation against ...], his sons, [.....], (r 8) [shall ...] one mina of [gold ......., and shall return the mon]ey tenf[old to its owner. He shall contest in] his [law]suit [and not succeed]. (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/P336191/
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Transliteration
⸢SUḪUR⸣ [x x x x x x x x x x] / [SUḪUR x x x x x x x x x x] / ⸢SUḪUR⸣ [x x x x x x x x x x] / ⸢SUḪUR⸣ <[x> x m]⸢qi⸣-bit-[x x x x x] / ⸢SUḪUR⸣ <[x> x] É.GAL É? [x x x x x] / ina ⸢KASKAL?⸣ URU.ur-za-a? [x x x x x] / ⸢ša⸣ É—02-e ša É.[GAL x x x x x x] / [ina] ⸢ŠÀ?⸣ 12 li-[x x x x x x] / il-qí kas-⸢pu⸣ [gam-mur ta-din] / É ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x x x] / šu-a-⸢tú⸣ [za-rip la-qi tu-a-ru de-e-nu…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P336191.
Attribution
Image: BM 123486 (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P336191). 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/P336191/.
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