Position in chronology
SAA 14 457. Bel-Harran-duri, Chariot Driver of the C[rown Prince], Buys Land (TIM 11 31)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(1) [Instead of his seal he impressed his fingernail]. (fingernail impressions) (2) [Fingernail] of Zer-sama', [owner of the field], garden, threshing floor and house being sold. (4) [An estate of x hect]ares of field in cultivation [by the seah] of 7 'litres' by the [...] 'litre'. (6) [A bui]lt [house] with [its] beams, and [with] it[s d]oors, [...] (8) [...] threshing floor, vegetable garden, (9) [...] Satib[a...] — (10) Bel-Harran-duri, chariot driver of the c[rown prince], [has co]ntracted and bou[ght it f]rom Zer-sama'[... f]or 3 and half mina of silver. (14) The money is paid…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[ku-um NA₄.KIŠIB-šú ṣu-pur-šú iš-kun] / [ṣu-pur] mNUMUN—sa-ma-aʾ / [EN A.ŠÀ] GIŠ.SAR ad-rat É SUM-ni / [É x] ⸢ANŠE⸣ A.ŠÀ ina ma-za-ru-ti / [ina GIŠ.BÁN] ša 07 qa ina 01 qa ni-[x x] / [É ep]-šú a-di GIŠ.ÙR-MEŠ-[šú] / [a-di] ⸢GIŠ⸣.IG-MEŠ-⸢šú⸣ [x x] / [x ad]-rat GIŠ.SAR šá Ú.⸢SAR⸣ / [x x] URU.sa-ti-⸢ba?⸣-[x x] / [ú]-piš-ma mEN—KASKAL—BÀD—[x] / ⸢LÚ⸣.mu-kil—KUŠ.PA-MEŠ šá ⸢DUMU?⸣—[MAN] / ⸢TAv⸣ IGI…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P337162.
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/P337162/..
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/P337162/.
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