Position in chronology
SAA 14 258. Purchase of Land (ADD 0396)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(1) Seal of Ṣalmu-šarri-iqbi, [...] from Susanu, owner of the [...] fiel[d] being sold. (seal impression) (Break) (r 1) [Witness] Adad-[...]. (r 2) [Witness] Gabr[i-...]. (r 3) Witness Aššur-[...]. (r 4) of Adian [...] (r 5) these men are of the city, witnesses. (r 6) Witness Nabû-ussetiq. (r 7) Witness Sammû-ram. (r 8) Witness Agru, 'third man'. (r 9) Witness Nergal-šarru-uṣur. (r 10) Month Elul (VI), 1st day, eponym [year of ...]. (r 11) Amat-šarri-duri[...] (e. 1) [Witness NN, scribe, keeper of the co]ntract.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB mdNU—MAN—iq-bi ⸢LÚ⸣.[x x x] / URU-LÚv.GIŠ.GIGIR-MEŠ-a.a EN A.⸢ŠÀ⸣ [x x x] / SUM-a-[ni] / [IGI m]10—u-[x x x] / [IGI] mgab-⸢ri⸣-[x x x] / IGI maš-šur?-[x x x] / ša URU.a-di-an [x x x] / an-nu-ti LÚ-MEŠ URU? IGI-MEŠ / IGI mdPA—DIB-ti-iq / IGI mGIŠ.ZAG.MÍ—ra-ma / IGI mag-ru LÚv.03.U₅ / IGI mU.GUR—MAN—PAB / ITI.KIN UD 01-KAM lim-[mu x x x x x x x] / URU.a-mat—MAN?—BÀD?-[x x x x x x x] / [IGI mx x x x x LÚ.A.BA ṣa-bit] ⸢dan⸣-ni-te
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335340.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Raija Mattila, Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part II: Assurbanipal Through Sin-šarru-iškun (State Archives of Assyria, 14), 2002. Lemmatised by Melanie Groß, 2010–2011, as part of the FWF-funded research project "Royal Institutional Households in First Millennium BC Mesopotamia" (S 10802-G18) directed by Heather D. Baker at the University of Vienna. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P335340/..
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/P335340/.
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