Position in chronology
SAA 14 256. Purchase of an Estate of 10 Hectares (ADD 0388)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(1) Seal of Napî, (2) ditto Issar-na'id, seal of Ri[...], (3) ditto Se'-dalâ, (4) ditto Nur-Ea, (5) ditto Aggar, in all 6 men, owner(s) of the field being sold. (stamp seal impressions) (7) An estate of 10 hectares of land by the seah of 9 'litres' [adjoining the dr]inking place, adjoining the main well, [adjoining] Se'-dalâ [...] (Break) (r 1) [Witn]ess [NN]. (r 2) Witness Nabû-ahu-idd[ina]. (r 3) Witness Mannu-ki-Aššur. (r 4) Witness Marduk-bani-ahi. (r 5) Witness Nergal-ibni. (r 6) Witness Nergal-uballiṭ. (r 7) Witness Igî. (r 8) Witness Lit-il, (r 9) Witness Nabisikki.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB mna-pi-⸢i?⸣ / : m15—I NA₄.KIŠIB mri*-[x x x] / : mse-e—da-la / : mZÁLAG—da.a / : mag-gar PAB 06 LÚ-MEŠ / EN A.ŠÀ ta-da-ni / ⸢É⸣ 10 ANŠE A.ŠÀ ina GIŠ.BÁN ša qa 09 / [SUḪUR] ⸢maš*⸣-qi-i SUḪUR bu-ru dan-nu / [SUḪUR m]se*—da*-la* ⸢x⸣+[x x] / [x x] ⸢x⸣ ḫa*-me* ⸢x⸣+[x x x] / ⸢IGI m*d*⸣[x x x x x] / IGI mdPA—PAB—⸢AŠ⸣ / IGI mman-nu—GIM—aš-šur / IGI mdŠÚ—DÙ—PAB / IGI mU.GUR—DÙ / IGI mU.GUR—ú-bal-liṭ / IGI mi-gi-i / IGI mZU—DINGIR / IGI m⸢na⸣-bi-si-ik-ki
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335332.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335332). 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/P335332/.
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