Position in chronology
SAA 11 222. Survey of a Large Estate Sold (ADD 0806)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 11(Beginning destroyed) (1) 10 h[ectares of land in] the town of Niramayu — the servants of the governor of Si'immê were split off in lieu of blood money; (4) 40 hectares of land, undisturbed in Inner City: in all 270[+x] hectares of land, which date from the time of Tiglath-Pileser. (7) 40 hectares of land — Bel-ahhešu, the kallapu-messenger bought (them); (9) 30 hectares, ditto, — in usufruct; 2 orchards, 1 gardener, Hatuk[u...]. (11) In all, 70 (hectares) of land, 2 orchards, 1 [garde]ner, (which date) from the time of Shalmaneser. (13) [x] hundred (hectares) of land in usufruct, [in] the…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 11 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
10 ⸢ANŠE⸣ [A.ŠÀ ina] URU.ni-ra-ma-⸢a.a⸣ / ARAD-MEŠ ša LÚv.EN.NAM KUR.si-me-e / ku-um da-me ib-ta-at-qu / 40 ANŠE A.ŠÀ a-na né-ḫu URU.ŠÀ—URU-a.a / PAB 02-me-70+[x] ANŠE A.ŠÀ / ša ina tar-ṣi mtukul-ti—A—É.ŠÁR.RA / 40 ANŠE A.ŠÀ [m]EN—PAB-MEŠ-šú LÚv.kal*-la-pu / ina kas-⸢pi⸣ i-si-qi / ⸢30 ANŠE :. a-na MU-MEŠ 02 GIŠ.SAR⸣ 01 LÚv.NU.GIŠ.SAR / mḫa-ṭu-⸢ku⸣ [x x x] / PAB 70 A.ŠÀ 02 GIŠ.SAR-MEŠ 02…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian administrative record (provincial or military), edited by F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate (SAA 11, 1995). ORACC text P335655.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from F. Mario Fales and J. Nicholas Postgate, Imperial Administrative Records, Part II: Provincial and Military Administration (State Archives of Assyria, 11), 1995. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2017, as part of the research programme of the Alexander von Humboldt Chair in the Ancient History of the Near and Middle East at LMU Munich (Karen Radner, Humboldt Professorship 2015). The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P335655/..
Translation excerpted from Fales, F.M. & Postgate, J.N. 1995. Imperial Administrative Records, Part II: Provincial and Military Administration. SAA 11. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa11/P335655/.
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