SAA 14 054. Purchase of a House (ADD 0344)

~655 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P335288

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 14

High confidence

(1) Seal of Šammu-balaṭi, eunuch, owner of the house being sold. (stamp seal impressions) (Break) (r 1) [Witness ...], porter. (r 2) [Witness] Addî, merchant. (r 3) Witness Nusku-balassu-uṣur, son of Aššur-kettu-iram. (r 5) Witness Marduk-šarru-ibni, cohort commander. (r 6) Witness Ṣalmu-šarri-iqbi, ditto. (r 7) Witness Nabû-šarru-uṣur, eunuch. (r 8) Witness (blank).

State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).

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Transliteration

NA₄.KIŠIB mšam-mu—TI.LA / LÚv.SAG EN É SUM-ni / [x x x x] ⸢x⸣+[x x] / [IGI mx x x x x]+⸢x⸣ LÚ.Ì.DU₈ / [IGI m]i-di-i DAM.QAR / IGI mdPA.TÚG—TI.LA—PAB / A maš-šur—⸢ZI⸣—ÁG / IGI mdŠÚ—MAN*—DÙ GAL—ki-ṣir / IGI mNU—MAN—E : / IGI mdPA—MAN—PAB LÚ.SAG / IGI mo*

Scholarly note

Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335288.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335288). 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/P335288/.

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