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SAA 06 016. Fragment of a Purchase Document of Inurta-ila'i (ADD 0518)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) adjoining the field of [NN] (2) upon [......] (3) adjoining the field [of ......] (Break) (r 1) [He shall place ... in the lap of DN res]iding in [..., and shall return the money tenfold t]o [its] owners. He shall contest [in his lawsuit] and [not succeed]. (r 4) [Witness] Muneppi[š-ilu, mayor]. (r 5) [Witness] Urarṭayu, [...]. (Rest destroyed)
Source: Kwasman, T. & Parpola, S. 1991. Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part I: Tiglath-Pileser III through Esarhaddon. SAA 6. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa06/P335455/
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Transliteration
[SUḪUR*] A.ŠÀ šá m⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] / [i]-⸢na*⸣ UGU [x x x x x x] / SUḪUR A.ŠÀ [x x x x x x x x] / [a]-⸢šib*⸣ URU.[x i-šá-kan kas-pu a-na 10-MEŠ] / [a*]-na EN-MEŠ-[šú GUR-ra ina de-ni-šú] / o* DUG₄.DUG₄-ma [la i-laq-qí] / [IGI m]mu-né-pi-[iš*—DINGIR LÚ.ḫa-za-nu] / [IGI m]URI-a.a [x x x x x] / [IGI m]⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x]
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335455.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335455). source
Translation excerpted from Kwasman, T. & Parpola, S. 1991. Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part I: Tiglath-Pileser III through Esarhaddon. SAA 6. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa06/P335455/.
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