Position in chronology
SAA 14 044. Kakkullanu Leases Land in Bit-abi-ila’i (*623-V-18) (NALK App I)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(1) Seal of Lu-šakin son of Sariuni from the city of Bit-abi-ilaya, owner of the land being sold for a number of years. (stamp seal impressions) (4) 1 hectare and 1 decare (adjoining) the Qumbatu road, adjoining Qašidaya, ditto the Qumbatu road, (7) 1 hectare and 4 decares adjoining the road of Hašana, and adjoining a wadi, (9) in all 2 hectares 5 decares of field by the seah of 9 ('litres') in Bit-abi-ila'i — (11) Kakkullanu, cohort commander, contracted and [bought] for 16 [shekels of silver] for a number of yea[rs]. (15) He shall have the usufruct of the land for 3 crop-years and 3…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB mlu—šá-kín A msa-ri-u-ni / TAv É—URU.AD—DINGIR-a.a / EN A.ŠÀ a-na MU.AN.NA-MEŠ SUM-ni / 01 ANŠE 1(bán) KASKAL URU.qu-um-ba-te / gab-di mqa-rit-a.a / : KASKAL URU.qu-um-ba-te / 01 ANŠE 4(bán) gab-di KASKAL / ša URU.ḫa-šá-a-na gab-di na-ḫal / PAB 02 ANŠE 5(bán) A.ŠÀ ina GIŠ.BÁN 09 <qa> / ina URU.É—AD—DINGIR-a.a / ú-piš-ma mkak-kul-la-nu / LÚv.GAL—ki-ṣir / ina ŠÀ ⸢16⸣ [GÍN-MEŠ KUG.UD] /…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P336247.
Attribution
Image: 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/P336247/..
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/P336247/.
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