Position in chronology
SAA 14 277. Purchase of Land (ADD 0525)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(Beginning destroyed) (1) [......] in the city (2) [......] (3) [......] (4) [... the road that] leads to Ni[...]aqi, adjoining ...[...] (Break) (r 2) shall give 2 minas of [silver]. (r 3) Witness Balaṭu-ereš, kulu'u. (r 5) Witness Issar-nadin-ahhe, chariot owner. (r 6) Witness Šamaš-kenu-balliṭ. (r 7) Witness Urdu-Issar, son of Tešê-ereš. (r 8) Witness Mar-Issar. (r 9) Witness Qurî. (r 10) Witness Kiqill[anu].
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[x x x x x x] ina URU / [x x x x x x]+⸢x x⸣ / [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ / [x x x x x x]+⸢x x⸣ / a-na URU.ni?-[x]-a?-qi / DU-u-ni / SUḪUR GAL [x x x x] / [x x x x x x x x x x]-ni / 02 MA.NA [KUG.UD] SUM-an / IGI mTI.LA—KAM-eš / LÚv.ku-lu-u / IGI m15—SUM—PAB-MEŠ LÚv.EN—GIŠ.GIGIR / IGI mdUTU—GIN—bal-liṭ / IGI mARAD—15 A mSÙḪ—KAM-eš / IGI mDUMU—d15 / IGI mqu-ri-i / IGI mki-qi-⸢la⸣-[nu]
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335462.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) ? — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335462). 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/P335462/.
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