Position in chronology
SAA 06 283. Ilu-iṣbatanni, King’s Eunuch, Buys 40 Hectares of Land (672-II-l) (ADD 0425)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(Beginning destroyed) (space for seal impressions) (1) An estate of 2 hectares [of land] adjoining (the estate of) Mannu-ki-Arbail the horse trainer and the river; (2) 1 hectare 4 decares, adjoining Ahi-qamu; (3) an estate of 8 decares adjoining Mannu-ki-ahhe and the house of [...]matite; (4) an estate of 2 decares adjoin[ing ... and a wa]di; (5) an estate of 3 decares adjoining [......]; (7) [an estate of x] hectares of land [......]; (8) [an estate of] 1 hectare 5 decares adjoining Ahi-qamu [......]; (9) an estate of 1 hectare 5 decares of land belonging to the woman Sa[...]; (10) an estate…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
É 02 ANŠE [A.ŠÀ] ⸢SUḪUR*⸣ mman-nu—ki-⸢i—arba-ìl.KI⸣ / LÚ.GIŠ.⸢GIGIR⸣ [SUḪUR o*] ÍD 01 ANŠE 4(bán) / SUḪUR mPAB—⸢qa⸣-[mu] ⸢É*⸣ 8(bán) SUḪUR mman-⸢nu⸣—ki—PAB-⸢MEŠ⸣ / SUḪUR ⸢É*⸣ [mx x]-ma*-ti-te* É 2(bán) / ⸢SUḪUR⸣ [x x SUḪUR] ⸢na⸣-ḫal É 3(bán) SUḪUR / m[x x x x x x x x x x x x] ⸢x⸣ / [É x] ANŠE A.ŠÀ [x x x x x x] / [É] 01 ANŠE 5(bán) :* mPAB—qa-⸢mu*⸣ [x x x x x] / ⸢É⸣ 01 ANŠE 5(bán) A.ŠÀ šá…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335368.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335368). source
Translation excerpted from Kwasman, T. & Parpola, S. 1991. Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part I: Tiglath-Pileser III through Esarhaddon. SAA 6. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa06/P335368/.
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