SAA 06 042. Šumma-ilani Buys a House (692-II-10) (ADD 0326)[via saao/saa06]
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o 1o 1 | (1) Instead of his seal he impressed his fingernail. | |
o 22 | (2) Fingernail of Dusî, owner of the house being sold. | |
unused space for stamp seal impressions | ||
o 33 | (3) A built house with its beams and doors, a sleeping room, its yard, its bathroom, servants' quarters, two thirds of the main building, an upper floor, a storehouse, and a wing with a tomb in it — | |
o 44 | ||
o 55 | ||
o 66 | ||
o 77 | ||
o 88 | (8) Šumma-ilani, chariot driver of the chamberlain, has contracted and bought it for 3 minas of silver by the (mina) of the king. | |
o 99 | ||
o 1010 | ||
o 1111 | (11) The money is paid completely. That house is purchased and acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is void. | |
o 1212 | ||
o 1313 | ||
o 1414 | (14) Whoever, at any time and in the future, lodges a complaint or [bre]aks the contract, whether Dusî [o]r his sons, brothers or relatives, who s[ee]ks a lawsuit or litigation against Šumma-ilani and his sons, | |
o 1515 | ||
o 1616 | ||
o 1717 | ||
o 1818 | ||
o 1919 | ||
o 2020 | (20) shall place a mina and 5 minas of refin[ed] silver [and x minas of] pure [gol]d in the la[p of the god ... residing in ...], and shall tie two white horses [to the feet of Aššur] and bring four harbakannu horses to the feet of Nergal. He shall pay one talent of tin to the governor of [his] ci[ty], and shall return the money tenfold to its owners. He shall contest in his lawsuit and not succeed. | |
o 2121 | ||
o 2222 | ||
Reverse | ||
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r 22 | ||
r 33 | ||
r 44 | ⸢01⸣ GÚ.UN AN.NA a-na LÚ.NAM ⸢URU⸣-[šú] | |
r 55 | ||
r 66 | ||
r 77 | ||
r 88 | (r 8) Witness Urdaya, weaver of multicolored trim. | |
r 99 | (r 9) Witness Ilu-ibni, brother of the mayor. | |
r 1010 | (r 10) Witness Kenu'a, from the Inner City. | |
r 1111 | (r 11) Witness Bel-ibni, servant of the chamberlain. | |
r 1212 | (r 12) Witness Šumma-ili, merchant. | |
r 1313 | (r 13) Witness Bibê, chief shepherd. | |
r 1414 | IGI m⸢SIG₅⸣—INIM-MEŠ—d15 LÚ.:. | (r 14) Witness Danqu-dibbi-Issar, ditto. |
r 1515 | [IGI] ⸢m⸣qa-lu-un-zu LÚ.:. | (r 15) Witness Qalunzu, ditto. |
r 1616 | (r 16) Witness Aššur-šezibanni, chariot driver. | |
r 1717 | (r 17) Witness Nabû-bel-šumati, scribe. | |
r 1818 | (r 18) Witness Qiti-ilani, 'third man.' | |
r 1919 | (r 19) Witness Arbailayu, chariot driver. | |
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r 2020 | ITI.GUD UD 10-KÁM lim-⸢mu⸣ [mza-za-a.a] | (r 20) Month Iyyar (II), 10th day, eponym year of [Zazaya], governor of Arp[ad]. |
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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/P335270/.