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SAA 06 017. Aššur-šallim-ahhe Buys a Threshing Floor (747-II-4) (ADD 0412)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) Fingernail of Ṣabu-damqu, (2) fingernail of Abzî, (3) fingernail of Eriba-Aššur, (4) fingernail of Šamaš-šallim, (5) fingernail of Ipparšidu, (6) a total of 5 men, owners of the threshing floor. (fingernail impressions) (7) A property of 90 square metres, a threshing floor in Du'ua, adjoining (the estates of) Adad-remanni and the overseer of the household — (10) Aššur-šallim-ahhe has contracted and bought (said) threshing floor from these m[en] for [x minas of silver] by the mina of [Carchemish]. (r 2) The money is paid [completely]. That threshing floor is purchased and acqui[red]. Any…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
⸢ṣu-pur⸣ mṣa-bu—SIG₅ / ṣu-pur mab-zi-i / ṣu-pur mSU—aš-šur / ṣu-pur mdUTU—šal-lim / ṣu-pur mpar-ši-du / PAB 05 LÚ-MEŠ EN ad-ri / É 09 qa ad-ru ina URU.du-ʾu-ú-a / SUḪUR mdIM—rém-a-ni / SUḪUR LÚ.ša—UGU—É / ú-piš-ma maš-šur—⸢šal-lim⸣—PAB-MEŠ / ad-ru ⸢TAv*⸣ pa*-⸢an⸣ [LÚ-MEŠ-e] / šu*-nu-ti ina ⸢ŠÀ⸣ [x MA.NA KUG.UD] / ina 01 MA.NA ša ⸢URU⸣.[gar-ga-mis] / il-qi kas-pu [gam-mur] / ⸢ta-din⸣ ad-ru…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335355.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335355). 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/P335355/.
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