Position in chronology
SAA 14 168. Purchase of 40 Hectares of Land and Two Houses (*620) (ADD 0435)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(Beginning destroyed) (1) (Owner of the ...) being sold. (stamp seal impressions) (2) An estate of 40 he[ctares .......] (3) a w[ell ......] (4) adjoini[ng ...] (5) ditto the road [......] (6) ditto the po[nd ......] (7) of the village of [...]. (8) An estate of 10 hecta[res ......] (9) adjoining the side road o[f ...], (10) ditto well [...], (11) ditto Sal[...], (12) ditto Adda-pada, [...]. (13) In all 40 hectares of field and 2 house[s ...], one garden [......] (r 2) Ratulu, [NN], (r 3) woman Bitâ, his wife [...], (r 4) woman Yaqirâ [...] — (r 5) [NN, (... of)] the chief eu[nuch], has…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
SUM-[ni] / É 40 ⸢ANŠE⸣ [x x x x x x x x] / 01-en ⸢bu*⸣-[ru x x x x x x x] / ⸢SUḪUR*⸣ [x x x x x x] / : KASKAL.⸢2*⸣ [x x x x x x x] / : ia*-[ar-ḫi x x x x x x x] / ša URU.ŠE [x x x x x x x x] / É 10 ⸢ANŠE⸣ [x x x x x x x x] / gab-di AMA ⸢šá*⸣ [x x x x x x x] / : bu-ru [x x x x x] / : msa-al-⸢x⸣+[x x x x] / : m10—pa-da-a [x x x x] / PAB 40 ANŠE A.ŠÀ 02* ⸢É*⸣-[MEŠ x x] / 01-en GIŠ.SAR [x x x x x x x…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335378.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335378). 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/P335378/.
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