Position in chronology
SAA 14 045. Kakkullanu Leases More Land in Bit-abi-ila’i (*623-X-7) (ADD 0621)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(1) Seal of Remanni-Illil, son of Yatana-il, from Bit-abi-ila'i, owner of the field being sold. (cylinder seal impression) (5) an estate of 2 hectares 3 decares of field, a lot, adjoining a wadi, adjoining Kiṣir-Aššur, adjoining the plain, adjoining the field of Ubru-Nabû, adjoining the field of Kiṣir-Aššur, (10) an estate of 7 decares of field adjoining the road that leads to Hašanu, adjoining the field of Gir-Aya, adjoining the field of Kakkullanu, (14) [in all] 3 hectares field by the seah of 9 'litres' [in] Bit-abi-ila'i — (r 1) Kakkullanu, cohort commander of the crown prince, has…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB mrém-a-na—BE / DUMU mia-ta-na—e-li / TAv URU.É—mAD—DINGIR-a.a / EN A.ŠÀ SUM-an*-ni / É 02 ANŠE 3(bán) A.ŠÀ pu-u-ru / SUḪUR na-ḫal SUḪUR mki-ṣir—aš-šur / SUḪUR ṣe-e-ri SUḪUR / A.ŠÀ ša mSUḪUŠ—dPA / SUḪUR A.ŠÀ ša mki-ṣir—aš-šur-ma / É 7(bán) A.ŠÀ SUḪUR KASKAL.2 / ša a-na URU.ḫa-šá-na DU-u-ni / SUḪUR A.ŠÀ ša mgi-ra-a.a / SUḪUR A.ŠÀ ša mkak-kul-la-ni / [PAB] 03 ANŠE A.ŠÀ ina GIŠ.BÁN 09 qa /…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335537.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335537). 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/P335537/.
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