Position in chronology
SAA 14 398. Fragment of a Conveyance Text (Iraq 32 10)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (stamp seal impressions) (1) ...[...] (2) of Mat[i'-Adda] — (3) [NN] has contracted and [bought] for 2 minas of silver [by the mina] of Carchemish. (6) The money is p[aid] completely. That [...] is purchased and ac[quired]. Any revocation, laws[uit, or litigation] is void. (9) Whoever [in the future], at any time, [breaks the contract] and lodges a complaint, whether Mat[i'-Adda], or his sons o[r his grandsons] or his brothers o[r his nephews] or [...], and se[eks] a law[suit or litigation against ...], (r 4) [shall place] one mina of [gold in the lap of DN] residing in…
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/P336196/
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Transliteration
⸢x x x x⸣ [x x x] / ša mma-te-[eʾ—x x] / ú-piš-ma m⸢x⸣+[x x x] / ina 02 MA.NA KUG.UD [ina MA.NA] / ša URU.gar-ga-[mis il-qi] / kas-pu gam-mur ⸢ta⸣-[din x] / šu-a-tú zar₄-pu ⸢la⸣-[qi] / tú-a-ru de-e-[nu DUG₄.DUG₄] / la-a-šú man-nu [ša ina ur-kiš] / ina mat-e-ma i-[GIL-u-ni] / i-zaq-qu-pa-[ni] / lu-u mma-te-[eʾ—x x] / lu-u DUMU-MEŠ-šú ⸢lu⸣-[u DUMU—DUMU-MEŠ-šú] / lu-u ŠEŠ-MEŠ-šú ⸢lu⸣-[u…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P336196.
Attribution
Image: BM 123369 (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P336196). 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/P336196/.
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