Position in chronology
SAA 14 434. Inurta-šarru-uṣur Rents Land in the Village of Smiths (*612-VI-28) (TIM 11 08)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(1) Seal of Ila-eriba, village manager of the chief treasurer's household. (3) 2 shekels of silver, field rental of 1 hectare of sown land by the seah of 10 'litres'. (seal impressions) (5) Inurta-šarru-uṣur shall cultivate and harvest the corn for Ila-eriba (on) 1 hectare of harrowed fallow-land in the village of smiths, plough it, and leave. (r 3) [If] he does not pay the field rental, he shall pay the yield of the threshing floor for 1 hectare of sown land. (r 5) The land is exempt, void of straw and corn taxes. (r 6) [Mon]th Elul (VI), 28(th) day, eponym year of Šamaš-šarru-ibni. (r 7) [Witness P]arsarâ. (r 8) [Witness] Ahaṭunri. (r 9) [Witness] Pan-Issar-lamur. (r 10) Witness Puṭi-še.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
⸢NA₄⸣.KIŠIB mDINGIR-la—SU / GAL—URU-MEŠ ša É IGI.DUB GAL / 02 GÍN KUG.UD gi-mir A.ŠÀ / ša 01 ANŠE ŠE.NUMUN ina GIŠ.BÁN 10 qa / mdMAŠ—MAN—PAB a-na mDINGIR-la—SU / 01 ANŠE ka-rap-⸢ḫi⸣ / maḫ-ṣu-u-te ina URU.SIMUG-ME / e-⸢ra⸣-áš ŠE e-ṣi-di / ⸢ú⸣-gal-lab e-li / [BE]-⸢ma⸣ <gi>-⸢mir⸣ A.ŠÀ la SUM-ni / ⸢te⸣-[lit] ad-ri ša 01 ANŠE ŠE.NUMUN SUM-an / A.ŠÀ za-ku-u la še-eb-ši NU nu-sa-ḫi / ⸢ITI⸣.KIN UD 28 lim-mu mdUTU—MAN—DÙ / [IGI m]⸢par⸣-sa-ra-a / [IGI m]a-ḫa—ṭu-ri / [IGI m]IGI—15—la-mur / ⸢IGI⸣ mpu-ṭi—še
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P337172.
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/P337172/..
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/P337172/.
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