Position in chronology
SAA 14 151. Purchase of an Estate in Bit-Sasana (*633-XII-14) (Iraq 32 04)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(1) Seal of Nabû-eriba, from the estate of Bit-[sa]sanâ, owner of the field being sold. (stamp seal impressions) (4) An estate of 5 [hectares] of field of [...] in the estate of Bit-sasanâ for 4 1/2 minas of silver, Tu[...]kalla (Break) (r 1) [Witness] Ra[mm]an-idri, son of Barbarrâ. (r 3) Witness Tabalayu. (r 4) Witness Abi-ul-idi. (r 5) Witness Ahi-gedi. (blank space of about two lines) (r 6) Month Adar (XII), 14th day, eponym year of Upaq-ana-Arbail. (r 8) Witness Nabû-eṭir, scribe.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB [md]PA—SU / URU.ŠE—É?—[sa]-sa-na-a / EN A.ŠÀ SUM-ni / É 05 [ANŠE] A.ŠÀ ša [x] x x / ina URU.[ŠE]—⸢É—sa?⸣-sa-na-a? / ina ŠÀ 04 1/2 MA.NA KUG.UD / mtu?-[x]-x-kal-la? / [IGI] mra-⸢ma⸣-nu—id-ri / ⸢DUMU⸣ mbar-bar-ra-a / IGI mtab-ba-la-a / IGI mAD—ul—ZU / IGI mPAB—gi-di / ITI.ŠE UD 14-KÁM / lim-mu mpa-qa—an—URU.arba-ìl / IGI mdPA—KAR-ir A.BA
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P336190.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Raija Mattila, Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part II: Assurbanipal Through Sin-šarru-iškun (State Archives of Assyria, 14), 2002. Lemmatised by Melanie Groß, 2010–2011, as part of the FWF-funded research project "Royal Institutional Households in First Millennium BC Mesopotamia" (S 10802-G18) directed by Heather D. Baker at the University of Vienna. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P336190/..
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/P336190/.
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