Position in chronology
SAA 14 118. Girittu Leases One Hectare of Field (*631-VII-9) (ADD 0622)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(1) Seal of Urdu-Issar, son of Urdu-Aššur, from the town of Kankanu, owner of the field being sold for a number of years. (3) An estate of 1 hectare of field by the seah of 8 'litres,' in cultivation, adjoining the field of Susî, adjoining the side road of Dunni, adjoining Aššur-bessunu — (stamp seal impressions) (6) Girittu has contracted for 10 shekels of silver. (7) He shall have the usufruct of the field for a number of years. (8) He shall enjoy the field for 3 crop years and 3 fallow years, in all 6 years. (10) Its straw tax shall be collected. Its grain tax shall be extracted. (r 1)…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB mARAD—d15 DUMU mARAD—aš-šur / TAv ŠÀ URU.ka*-na*-ka-nu EN A.ŠÀ a-na MU.AN.NA-MEŠ / ta-da-a-ni É 01 ANŠE A.ŠÀ ina GIŠ.BÁN ša 08 qa / ina ma-az-ru*-u-ti SUḪUR A.ŠÀ ša msu?-si-i / SUḪUR AMA ša URU.du-un-ni SUḪUR maš-šur—bé-su-nu / ú-piš-ma mgír-tú ina ŠÀ 10 GÍN-MEŠ* KUG.UD / A.ŠÀ a-na MU.AN.NA-MEŠ KÚ / 03 ŠE.me-ri-še 03 ŠE.ka-rap-ḫi / PAB 06 MU.AN.NA-MEŠ A.ŠÀ e-kal / ŠE.šib-še-šú…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335538.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335538). 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/P335538/.
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