Position in chronology
SAA 14 205. Nabu-šapik-zeri Buys an Estate of 6 Hectares in Ša-Ṣillaya (ADD 0385)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(Beginning destroyed) (1) In all [......] (2) to [NN, ...] — (stamp seal impressions) (3) Nabû-šapik-zeri has contracted and bought an estate of 6 hectares of land in cultivation in Ša-Ṣillaya, according to the copper seah of 9 'litres' from Bel-Ingal-duri, eunuch of the crown prince (and) from these men for 36 homers barley according to the copper seah of 9 'litres'. (8) Whoever breaks the contract shall pay the barley at the threshing floor to Nabû to redeem the land. (10) Adjoining the fie[ld o]f Nabû-šapik-zeri, adjoining [the field of] Bel-ibni, adjoining the field [of] Abi-[ṭa]b, (Stamp…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
PAB [x x x x x x x x x x] / a-na* ⸢m*⸣[x x x x x x x x x] / ú-piš-ma mdPA—DUB—NUMUN É 06 ANŠE A.ŠÀ / ina ma-zar-u-te ina URU.šá—GIŠ.MI-a.a ina GIŠ.BÁN 09 qa URUDU / TAv* IGI mEN—NÍG.GÁL—BÀD* LÚv.SAG* A—MAN / TAv* IGI LÚv*-MEŠ an-nu-ti ina ŠÀ-bi / 36 ANŠE ŠE.PAD-MEŠ ina GIŠ.BÁN 09 qa URUDU / il-qi man-nu ša GIL-u-nu / ŠE.PAD-MEŠ ina ad-ri a-na dPA / id-dan A.ŠÀ ú-še-ṣi SUḪUR / A.⸢ŠÀ ša*⸣…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335329.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335329). 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/P335329/.
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