SAA 14 140. Purchase of an Estate (653) (ADD 0379)

~655 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P335323

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 14

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(1) [Seal of Ur]du-Issar, seal of Amurrî, [seal of Ul]ulayu, bow maker from Donkey Driver Town, [owners of the field] being sold. (cylinder seal impression) (4) [An estate of x hectares of field] adjoining a wadi, [adjoining ..., adjoin]ing (the field of) Issar-duri : Issar-dur[i ...] behind the orch[ard ...], adjoining the field (Break) (r 1) [scri]be, keeper of the tablet. (r 2) [Month ..., xth day, epo]nym year of Aššur-ila'i, vizier.

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

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Transliteration

[NA₄.KIŠIB m]⸢ARAD⸣—15 NA₄.KIŠIB mIM.04-i / [NA₄.KIŠIB m]⸢ITI⸣.KIN-a.a LÚ.ZADIM* URU.UŠ—ANŠE-a.a / [EN A.ŠÀ] ta-da-a-ni / [É x ANŠE A.ŠÀ] SUḪUR na-ḫal / [SUḪUR x x x x x] ⸢SUḪUR⸣ m15—BÀD : m15—⸢BÀD⸣ / [x x x x x] ku-tal GIŠ.⸢SAR⸣ / [x x x x] SUḪUR A.ŠÀ / [A].⸢BA⸣ ṣa-bit IM / [ITI.x UD-x x lim]-mu maš-šur—DINGIR-a.a / LÚ.SUKKAL

Scholarly note

Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335323.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335323). 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/P335323/.

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