Position in chronology
SAA 06 340. Remanni-Adad Buys Land, Gardens and People (ADD 0372)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(Beginning destroyed) (1) [the fields, gardens and peop]le are acquired [and purchased. Any revocation, lawsuit] or litigation is void. (3) [Whoever in the future], at any time, [whether NN], or his sons grandsons, brothers or [nephews] comes forward [and seeks a law]suit or litigation [against Remanni-A]dad, and his sons [and grandsons, saying]: (9) "The money is not completely [paid, the field]s, gar[de]ns and [people are] not [acquired and purchased]," (Break) (r 1) [shall return the money ten]fold [to its owner. He shall contest] in [his] non-lawsuit [and not] succeed. (r 4) [Witness…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[A.ŠÀ-MEŠ GIŠ.SAR-MEŠ UN]-MEŠ za-⸢ár-pu⸣ [o] / [la-qi-u tu-a-ru] ⸢de⸣-nu* DUG₄.DUG₄ la-áš-šú / [man-nu šá ina ur-kiš] ina ma-te-ma / [lu-u mx x x x lu]-u DUMU-MEŠ-šú / [lu-u DUMU—DUMU-MEŠ-šú] lu-u PAB-MEŠ-šú / [lu-u DUMU—PAB-MEŠ-šú ša e]-la-an-ni / [TAv mrém-an-ni—d]IM DUMU-MEŠ-šú / [DUMU—DUMU-MEŠ-šú de]-nu DUG₄.DUG₄ / [ub-ta-u-ni ma-a] kas-pu la gam-mur / [la ta-ad-din A.ŠÀ]-⸢MEŠ*⸣…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335316.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Theodore Kwasman and Simo Parpola , Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part I: Tiglath-Pileser III through Esarhaddon (State Archives of Assyria, 6), 1991. Lemmatised by Melanie Groß, 2010–2011, as part of the FWF-funded research project "Royal Institutional Households in First Millennium BC Mesopotamia" (S 10802-G18) directed by Heather D. Baker at the University of Vienna. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P335316/..
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/P335316/.
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