Position in chronology
SAA 06 099. A Royal Concubine Purchases Real Estate (ADD 0519)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (2) [......], 5 do[ors], (3) [......] Libluṭ, (4) [......]aya, (5) [......], adjoining a street [...] — (7) [NN, con]cubine of the king, has [con]tracted and [bought it from Na]bû-šallim for [x minas of sil]ver by the (mina) of Carchemish. (10) [The mon]ey is paid completely. [Th]at [...] is purchased and acquired. [Any revocation], lawsuit or litigation is void. (13) [Whoever in the futu]re, at any time, [lodges a compl]aint, whether [Nabû-šallim or] his sons (or) grands[ons, and] seeks a [laws]uit or litigation [against ...], (r 1) shall pla[ce] 10 minas [of silver…
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/P335456/
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Transliteration
[x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣+[x x x] / [x x x x x x x x] 05* GIŠ.⸢IG*⸣-[MEŠ] / [(x) x x x x x x x] mlib-luṭ / [(x) x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-a.a / [(x) x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-di SUḪUR ⸢su*⸣-qa-qi / [(x) x x x x x] ⸢tu⸣-piš-ma / [MÍ.x x x MÍ.ERIM]—⸢É⸣.GAL ša U*.U* / [TAv IGI md]⸢PA*⸣—šal-lim ina ŠÀ-bi / [x MA.NA KUG].⸢UD*⸣ ša URU.gar-ga-mis / [tal-qi kas]-pu gam-mur ta-din / [x x x x šú]-⸢a*⸣-te za-rip la-qi /…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335456.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335456). 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/P335456/.
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