SAA 06 251. Šadditu, Sister of Esarhaddon, Buys Land (ADD 0804)[via saao/saa06]

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obeginning (about 15 lines) broken away

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[x x x x x x] ŠÀ lu* [x x x x]

(1) [......] in ...[...]

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[x x x x x] SUḪUR ÍD SUḪUR [x x x x x]

(2) [... adjoin]ing the river, [....... and] the house of Ahu-damqu;

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[x x x x x] É* mPABSIG₅ mdU.GURú-bal-[liṭ]

(3) Nergal-ubal[liṭ ...] and his wife

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[x x x x]+x -šú ú-piš-ma .KUR-i-

(4) Šaddit[u, daug]hter [of] Sennacherib, king of Assyria, and sister of Es[arh]addon, king of Assyria, has contracted and bought (said property) for 8 minas of silver by the mina of Carchemish.

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[DUMU]. [md]30—PAB-MEŠSU MAN KUR-šur NIN-su

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ša m-[šur]PAB MAN KUR-šur-ma ina ŠÀ-bi 08 MA.NA KUG.UD

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ina ma--[e] ša URU.gar-ga-mis il-qi

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kas-pu gam-mur ta-din GIŠ.SAR É A.ŠÀ UN-MEŠ šu-a-[te zar-pu]

(8) The money is paid completely. That garden, house, land and people [are purchased] and acquired. Any revocation, law[su]it, or litigation is voi[d].

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laq-qi-ʾu tu-a-ru de-[e]-nu DUG₄.DUG₄ la-áš-[šú]

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man-nu šá ina ur-kiš imma-[te]-ma i-za-qu-pa-ni GIL-u-ni

(10) Whoever in the future, at any t[ime], lodges a complaint and breaks the con[tract], whether these gentlemen [or] their [so]ns, grandsons, brother[s] or nephews, or their prefect, and seeks a law[suit or litigation] aga[inst Šadd]itu and her sons and grandsons,

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lu-u -MEŠ-e an-nu-ti [lu-u] DUMU-MEŠ-šú-nu

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lu-u DUMUDUMU-MEŠ-šú-nu lu-u ŠEŠ-[MEŠ-šú-nu] lu-u DUMUPAB-šú-<nu>

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lu-u šak-nu-šú-nu ša TAv [].KUR-i-ti* ù DUMU-MEŠ-šá

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ù DUMUDUMU-MEŠ-šá de-[e-nu DUG₄.DUG₄ ub]-ta-ʾu-[u-ni]

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10 MA.NA KUG.UD LUḪ-u [x MA.NA KUG.GI sak-ru]

(15) shall place 10 minas of refined silver (and) [x minas of pure gold] in the lap of Ištar re[siding in Nineveh], and shall set up 7 marsh reeds which are [without nodes at the gate of Aššur].

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ina bur-ki d.TAR a-[ši-bat URU.NINA.KI GAR-an]

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07* GI AMBAR ša* [la ki-ṣir ina d-šur]

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i-zaq-qap [02 ANŠE.KUR.RA-MEŠ BABBAR-MEŠ]

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ina GÌR.2 [d-šur i-rak-kas 04 ANŠE ḫar-ba-kan-ni]

(r 1) [He shall tie two white horses] to the feet of [Aššur, and shall bring four harbakannu horses] to the fe[et of Nergal. He shall contest] in his no[n-law]suit and n[ot] suc[ceed].

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ina KI.[TA dMAŠ.MAŠ ú-še-rab]

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ina la de-ni-šú [DUG₄.DUG₄-ma]

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la i-[laq-qi]



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[IGI] msa-si-[i x x x x x]

(r 5) [Witness] Sasî, [...].

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IGI mSUḪUŠx+[x x x x x x x]

(r 6) [Witne]ss Ubru-[..., ...].

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(r 7) [Witne]ss Bel-lu-[balaṭ, ...].

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IGI mṣil-[x x x x x x x x]

(r 8) [Witne]ss Ṣil-[..., ...].

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(r 9) [Witne]ss [......]

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IGI m[x x x x x x x x]

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(Rest destroyed)


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/P335653/.