Position in chronology
SAA 14 117. Mar-šarri-bel-ahhe Leases Land in Dayyan-Adad (*633-I-26) (ADD 0628)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(1) Seal of Sin-kuṣuranni, seal of Dadi-ila'i, owner(s) of the estate being sold. (seal impressions) (4) An estate of 2 hectares 2 decares of field by the seah of 9 'litres' in the village of Dayyan-Adad, adjoining ..., adjoining [...], adjoining [NN], adjoining ... — (10) Mar-šarri-bel-ahhe has contracted and bought for 12 shekels of silver. (12) He shall have the usufruct (of the field) for a number of years. (13) On the day that he pays the silver, he shall redeem his field. (r 1) Witness Ilumma-le'i. (r 2) Witness Abdî. (r 3) Witness Nabû-šumu-iškun, chariot driver. (r 5) Witness…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB md30—ku-ṣur-a-ni / NA₄.KIŠIB mU*.U*—DINGIR-a.a / EN A.ŠÀ SUM-ni / É 02 ANŠE 2(bán) A.ŠÀ ina GIŠ.BÁN šá 9 qa / ina URU.DI.KUD—dIM / gab-di ku-da?-ri / gab-di ⸢x x x⸣ / gab-di m⸢x x x x⸣ / gab-di ku-da-ri / ú-piš-ma m⸢A—MAN—EN—PAB-MEŠ⸣ / ina ŠÀ-bi 12 GÍN-MEŠ KUG.UD / il-qi a-na MU.AN.NA-MEŠ KÚ / ina UD-me ša KUG.UD i-dan-nu-ni / A.ŠÀ-šú ú-še-ṣa / IGI mDINGIR-ma—ZU / IGI mab-di-i / IGI…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335543.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335543). 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/P335543/.
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