Position in chronology
SAA 14 206. Nabu-šezib Buys Land (ADD 0411)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(Beginning destroyed) (1) adjoining [......] (2) adjoining [......] (3) in all 6 hectares 3 decares of fi[eld ...] — (4) Nabû-šezib has contracted and bought from Nabû-šar-ahhešu for 30 shekels of silver. (7) An estate of 2 hectares of field in the town of Erud[i ...], adjoining Adad-abu-uṣur, adjoining [NN], adjoining Abi-ul-idi, [...] (10) In all 2 hec[tares of field ...]. (Break) (r 1) [... Nabû-šar]-ahhešu (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
SUḪUR [x x x x x x x x] / SUḪUR [x x x x x x x x] / PAB 06? ANŠE 3(bán) A.ŠÀ-MEŠ / ú-piš-ma mdPA—še-zib / TAv IGI mdPA—MAN—PAB-MEŠ-šú / ina ŠÀ 30 GÍN-MEŠ KUG.UD TI-qi / É 02 ANŠE A.ŠÀ ina URU.e-ru-⸢di⸣ / SUḪUR md10—AD—PAB SUḪUR m[x x x x] / SUḪUR mAD—ul—ZU [x x x x x] / PAB ⸢02 ANŠE⸣ [A.ŠÀ x x x x] / [x x mdPA—MAN]—PAB-MEŠ-šú
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335354.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335354). 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/P335354/.
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