SAA 06 251. Šadditu, Sister of Esarhaddon, Buys Land (ADD 0804)[via saao/saa06]
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oo | beginning (about 15 lines) broken away | |
o 1'1' | [x x x x x x] ŠÀ ⸢lu*⸣ [x x x x] | |
o 2'2' | (2) [... adjoin]ing the river, [....... and] the house of Ahu-damqu; | |
o 3'3' | [x x x x x] É* mPAB—SIG₅ md⸢U.GUR⸣—ú-⸢bal⸣-[liṭ] | (3) Nergal-ubal[liṭ ...] and his wife — |
o 4'4' | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ MÍ-šú ú-piš-ma ⸢MÍ⸣.KUR-i-⸢tú⸣ | (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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o 6'6' | ša maš-[šur]—⸢PAB⸣—AŠ MAN KUR—aš-šur-ma ina ŠÀ-bi 08 MA.NA ⸢KUG.UD⸣ | |
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o 8'8' | 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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o 10'10' | (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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o 12'12' | lu-u DUMU—DUMU-MEŠ-šú-nu lu-u ŠEŠ-[MEŠ-šú-nu] ⸢lu⸣-u DUMU—PAB-šú-<nu> | |
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o 15'15' | (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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r 1r 1 | (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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r 55 | (r 5) [Witness] Sasî, [...]. | |
r 66 | ⸢IGI⸣ mSUḪUŠ—⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x] | (r 6) [Witne]ss Ubru-[..., ...]. |
r 77 | ⸢IGI⸣ m⸢EN—lu⸣-[x x x x x x x x] | (r 7) [Witne]ss Bel-lu-[balaṭ, ...]. |
r 88 | ⸢IGI⸣ mṣil-[x x x x x x x x] | (r 8) [Witne]ss Ṣil-[..., ...]. |
r 99 | ⸢IGI⸣ md[x x x x x x x x] | (r 9) [Witne]ss [......] |
r 1010 | ⸢IGI⸣ m[x x x x x x x x] | |
rest broken away |
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/.