SAA 14 260. Purchase of Land (ADD 0403)

~655 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P335346

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 14

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(1) Seal of [NN, ...] (stamp seal impressions) (2) 20 hectares of lan[d ...] (3) [......]. (Break) (r 1) Witness [...]. (r 2) Witness Silim-Dadî, [...]. (r 3) Witness Hašanu, [...]. (r 4) Witness Bari[..., ...]. (r 5) Witness Nadin-ahhe. (r 6) Month Marchesvan (VIII), 10th day, in the time of [NN], governor of [...]. (r 9) [...], [...] (e. 1) [Witness ...]balliṭ, scribe.

State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).

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Transliteration

NA₄.⸢KIŠIB⸣ [x x x x x x x] / 20 ANŠE A.⸢ŠÀ⸣ [x x x x] / ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x] / IGI m⸢d*⸣[x x x x x x] / IGI mDI—U*.U* [x x x] / IGI mḫa-šá-nu [x x x] / IGI mba-ri-[x x (x x)] / IGI mAŠ—PAB-[MEŠ o*] / ITI.APIN UD 10-KÁM / ina* tar-ṣi md[x x x] / LÚv.GAR.KUR URU.[x x x] / ⸢lim-mu⸣ m[x x x x x] / [IGI mx x x]-bal-liṭ LÚv*.AB.BA

Scholarly note

Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335346.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335346). 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/P335346/.

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