Position in chronology
SAA 14 180. Ešrayu, Horse Trainer of the Personal Guard, Buys Land in Mera (ADD 0354)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(Beginning destroyed) (2) [... x] cubits long, [x cubits wide, adjoining] Qilî, adjoining the house of [NN], [adjoining] Issar-nadin-ahhe. (4) Half of a vegetable garden adjoining Uqur-Adad, [adjoining] Mahitê. (6) In all a field, a vacant lot, and half a garden in Mera belonging to Aššur-belu-da'an, son of Nabû-uṣalla, horse trainer of the open chariotry — (r 1) Ešrayu, horse trainer of the ša šēpē guard, has contracted and [bought them fo]r 32 shekels of silver [from] Aššur-belu-da'an. (r 4) The [mon]ey is paid completely. [Th]at [field], vacant lot, half a garden are purchased and…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[x x x x] nu* sa ⸢a*⸣ [x x x x x] / [x x ina] 01 KÙŠ GÍD.DA [x ina 01 KÙŠ DAGAL] / [SUḪUR] m*qi-li-i SUḪUR ⸢É*⸣ [mx x x] / [SUḪUR m]d15—SUM-na—PAB-MEŠ mi-šil GIŠ.⸢SAR⸣ / [ša*] ⸢Ú*⸣.SAR SUḪUR mú-qur—dIM / [SUḪUR] ⸢m*⸣ma-ḫi-te-e PAB-ma o* / ⸢A⸣.ŠÀ kaq-qi-ri pu-ṣe-e / mi-šil GIŠ.SAR ina URU.me-ra / ša maš-šur—EN—KALAG-an / DUMU mdPA—ṣal-li LÚ.GIŠ.GIGIR—DU₈-MEŠ / ⸢ú-piš⸣ o* mUD-20-KÁM-a.a…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335298.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335298). 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/P335298/.
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