Position in chronology
SAA 14 046. Kakkullanu Buys a Vineyard Next to His Garden in Appuni (*623-XI-6) (ADD 0361)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(Beginning destroyed) (stamp seal impressions) (1) A planted vineyard [in] a village in the middle of the town of Appuni, adjoining the river, adjoining the garden of Kaldayu, adjoining the garden of Kakkullanu, adjoining an alley — (6) Kakkullanu, cohort commander of the crown prince has contracted and bought it from Dadaya (and) from Ribati, son of Šalim-ken, for 1 1/2 mina and 5 shekels of silver. (10) The money is paid completely. That garden is purchased and acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is void. (13) Whoever in the future, at any time, lodges a complaint and breaks…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[GIŠ].SAR zaq-pu ša GIŠ.til-lit / [ina] URU.ŠE qab-si URU.ap-pu-ú-ni / SUḪUR ÍD SUḪUR GIŠ.SAR šá mkal-da-a.a / SUḪUR GIŠ.SAR ša mku-kul-la-ni / SUḪUR su-qa-qi ú-piš-ma / mku-ku-la-nu GAL—ki-ṣir A—MAN / TAv IGI mda-da-a / TAv IGI mri-ba-a-te A mšá-lim—GIN / ina ŠÀ 01 1/2 MA.NA 05 GÍN-MEŠ KUG.UD TI / kas-pu ga-mur ta-din / GIŠ.SAR šu-a-te za-rip laq-qi / tu-a-ru de-e-nu DUG₄.DUG₄ la-áš-šú / man-nu…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335305.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335305). 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/P335305/.
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