Position in chronology
SAA 14 112. Sin-aplu-iddina Buys 15 Hectares of Field (*634-I-6) (ADD 0384+)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(1) Seal of [NN], [from] the town of [...]. (Break) (finger nail impressions) (1') Adad-bani, s[on of Ešrayu]. (2') An estate of 15 hectares of sow[n field ...] in cultivation, well[s ...] belonging to Adad-bani, son of Ešrayu — (5) he has contracted and given it legally to Sin-aplu-iddina, [...] for 30 min[as of silver]. (8) The money is completely paid. (9) The field is purchased, acquired, paid off and cleared. (10) Any revocation (or) litigation is void. (12) In the future, amongst the son[s of] (13) Adad-bani, whether [...] (14) or [his] brothers [...] (15) or [his] nep[hews] (16)…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Spotted an error? Suggest a correction — confirmed corrections feed the engine's knowledge base.
Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB [x x x x x] / URU.[x x x x] / mdIM—DÙ ⸢DUMU*⸣ [mUD-20-KÁM-a-a] / É 15 ANŠE ŠE.⸢NUMUN⸣ [x x x x] / ina ma-za-ru-te bu-⸢ra*-a*⸣-[te x x x] / ša mdIM—DÙ DUMU m⸢UD-20?-KÁM⸣-[a-a] / ú*-tap*-piš* ina ŠÀ-bi 30* MA.⸢NA⸣ [KUG.UD] / a*-na* md30—A—SUM-na LÚ.⸢x⸣+[x x] / i-zi-rip it-ti-⸢din⸣ / kás*-pu ga-mur SUM-[ni] / A.ŠÀ.GA za-rip la-a-qi / a-pil za-a-ku tu-a-⸢ru⸣ / da-ba-a-bu la-a-⸢šu⸣ / ina…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335328.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335328). 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/P335328/.
Related tablets
Related sources
An early example of administrative writing from Uruk. Its fragmentary numerical entries and commodity signs document record-keeping during the formative period of writing.
An early surviving historical monument that joins named rulers, a territorial dispute and religious oaths. It shows how a city-state turned victory into a lasting public claim, without establishing that this was the first recorded conflict.
Among the oldest surviving written law collections. It provides an early witness to royal justice and specified compensation, rather than a starting date for law itself.