Position in chronology
SAA 14 473. Dayan-Kurbail Buys Land (ADD 0386)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(Beginning destroyed) (seal space) (1) [An estate of x hectares of fiel]d according to the seah of 10 ['litres' ...] (2) [...]..., springs and a threshing floor (3) [adjoining the fiel]d of the town Urzunapi (4) [adjoining the fi]eld of Ahi-limmi, (5) [adjoining the fi]eld of Lu-šalim, (6) [...]..., a vacant lot, and an irrigated area — (7) Dayyan-Kurbail has [con]tracted and bought [fo]r 30 shekels by the mina of half (a mina) of silver. (9) The money is paid completely. That field is purchased and acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is void. (12) Whoever in the future, at any…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[É x ANŠE A.ŠÀ].⸢GA⸣ ina GIŠ.BÁN ša* 10* [qa x x x] / [x x x x] ⸢ŠÀ*⸣ IGI.2-MEŠ ad*-ru* / [SUḪUR A.ŠÀ].⸢GA⸣ ša URU.⸢ur⸣-zu-na-pi / [SUḪUR A].ŠÀ.GA ša mPAB—lim-me / [SUḪUR A].ŠÀ ša mlu—DI-me / [x x x x] ⸢ŠÀ*⸣ KI!-MEŠ pu-ṣe-e É ši*-qi* / [ú]-⸢piš⸣-ma mDI.KUD—kur-ba-ìl / [ina ŠÀ]-bi 30 GÍN-MEŠ ša 01 MA.NA 1/2 KUG.UD / il-qi kas-pu ga-mur ta-din-ni / A.ŠÀ.GA za-ri*-bi la-a-qi o* / tu-a-ru de-e-nu…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335330.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335330). 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/P335330/.
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