Position in chronology
SAA 14 035. Kakkullanu Buys an Outbuilding Adjoining His House (*630-V-22) (ADD 0349)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(1) Seal of Ilu-[...], son of Adad-[...], (3) ditto of Addî, son of [NN], (4) ditto of Nabû-šaliṭ, son of [NN], (5) owner of the outbuilding [being sold]. (seal impressions) (6) An outbuilding in Nineveh, a well within, 43 cubits (is) the length, 25 cubits its width, (8) adjoining the house of Kakkullanu, cohort commander, (10) adjoining house Il-mananî, horse trainer, (11) adjoining a street, adjoining another street — (12) Kakkullanu has contracted and bought it for 3 minas and 30 shekels of silver. (14) The money is paid completely. Th[at] outbuilding is purchased and acquired. Any…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB mDINGIR-[x x x x] / A m10?-[x x x] / :. ma-di-i A m[x x x x x] / :. mdPA—šá-liṭ A m[x x x x x] / EN É ša a-kul-li [SUM-ni] / É ša GIŠ.a-kul-li ina NINA.KI / PÚ ina ŠÀ-bi 43 ina 01 KÙŠ GÍD.DA / 25 ina 01 KÙŠ DAGAL-šú gab-di / É mkul-ku-la-nu GAL—ki-ṣir / gab-di É mDINGIR—ma-na-ni LÚv.GIGIR / gab-di SILA gab-di SILA-ma / ú-piš-ma mku-ku-la-nu / ina ŠÀ-bi 03 MA.NA 30 GÍN KUG.UD / TI kas-pu…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335293.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335293). source
Translation excerpted from Mattila, R. 2002. Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part II: Assurbanipal through Sin-šarru-iškun. SAA 14. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa14/P335293/.
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