Position in chronology
SAA 06 051. Duplicate of the Preceding Text (ADD 0423)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) servants of Bar-h[atê] in the town of Ti'i — (3) Šum[ma-ilani] has contracted and bought them from Bar-hatê for 6 minas of silver by [the mina of the king]. (6) The money is paid completely. That field, house, people, and garden are purchased and acqui[red]. Any revocation, law[suit], or litigation is [void]. (12) Whoever, at any ti[me, breaks the contract], whether Bar-ha[tê], his sons, or a neighbour or relative of his, and se[eks] a lawsuit or litigation against Šumm[a-ilani and his sons], (r 5) shall place 10 minas of silver and one mi[na of gold] in the lap of Iš[tar residing] in Nineveh, and shall ret[urn] the mon[ey tenfold] to its owners. He shall con[test] in his lawsuit [and not succeed]. (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/P335366/
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Transliteration
⸢ARAD*-MEŠ mbar*—ḫa*⸣-[te-e] / ina URU.ti-ʾi-[i] / ú-piš-ma m⸢šum⸣-[mu—DINGIR-MEŠ-ni] / TAv IGI mbar—<ḫa>-te-[e] / ina ŠÀ 06 MA.NA KUG.UD ina [MA.NA ša MAN] / il-qí kas-pu gam-⸢mur⸣ / ta-ad-⸢din⸣ A.ŠÀ É / UN-MEŠ GIŠ.SAR šu-a-[tú] / za-ár-pu laq-[qí-u] / tu-a-ru de-[e-nu] / ⸢DUG₄.DUG₄ la⸣-[áš-šú] / ⸢man-nu⸣ šá ina ur-[kiš GIL-u-ni] / lu-u mbar—ḫa-⸢at*⸣-[e] / lu-u DUMU-MEŠ-šú [o] / lu-u…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335366.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335366). 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/P335366/.
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