SAA 14 188. Bardi Buys a House and a Vacant Lot (ADD 0357)[via saao/saa14]
Obverse | ||
oo | beginning broken away | |
o 1'1' | (1) Bar[dî has contracted] and bought it [fr]om B[el-šar]ru-uṣur f[o]r 5 1/2 m[in]as of silver by the mina of the king. | |
o 2'2' | ||
o 3'3' | ||
o 4'4' | (4) The money is paid compl[etely]. That house and vacant lot are purchased and acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is void. | |
o 5'5' | ||
o 6'6' | ||
o 7'7' | ||
o 8'8' | (8) Whoever in the future, at any time, whether Bel-šarru-uṣur or his sons or his grandsons or his brothers or his nephews, seeks a lawsuit or litigation against Bardî, his sons and his grandsons, | |
o 9'9' | ||
o 10'10' | ||
Bottom | ||
b.e. 11'b.e. 11' | ||
b.e. 12'12' | ||
b.e. 13'13' | ||
b.e. 14'14' | ||
Reverse | ||
r 1r 1 | (r 1) shall place one mina of refined silver (and) one mina of pure gold in the lap of Ištar (residing in) Nineveh, and shall return the money tenfold to its owners. He shall contest in his lawsuit and not succeed. | |
r 22 | ||
r 33 | ||
r 44 | ||
r 55 | ||
r 66 | ||
r 77 | (r 7) Witness Šulmu-ahhe, brewer. | |
r 88 | (r 8) Witness Urdu, weaver. | |
r 99 | (r 9) Witness Šamaš-remanni, ditto. | |
r 1010 | (r 10) [Witness R]amanû, merchant from Kišqu. | |
r 1111 | [IGI mx x x]-a.a : : o* | (r 11) [Witness ...]ayu, ditto ditto. |
r 1212 | (r 12) [Witness ...]-zeri, ditto. Witness [NN], [...] of the queen. | |
rest broken away |
Adapted from Raija Mattila, Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part II: Assurbanipal Through Sin-šarru-iškun (State Archives of Assyria, 14), 2002. 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/P335301/.