Position in chronology
SAA 06 024. A Fragmentary Sale of Land (723) (ADD 0395)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Instead of [their] seals [they impressed their fingernails]. (2) Fingernail of Abu-[...], fingernail of Abu-eriba, [owners of the land being sold]. (fingernail impressions) (4) [An estate of] 3 hectares of land in the town of [...], adjoin]ing the side road of Tu[...], the field of Urda-[...], (and) the field of Šep-[..., the ... of] the commander-[in-chief] (Break) (r 1) [Witness ...]šu. Witness [NN]. (r 2) [Witness Na]bû-šumu-uṣur, [...]. (r 3) [Month ...], 22nd day, epo[nym] year of Shalmaneser (V), king of [Assyria].
Source: 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/P335339/
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Transliteration
ku-um NA₄.⸢KIŠIB⸣-[šú-nu ṣu-pur-šú-nu iš-ku-nu] / ṣu-pur mAD—⸢x⸣+[x x x] / ṣu-pur mAD—⸢SU*⸣ [EN A.ŠÀ SUM-ni] / [É] 03 ANŠE A.ŠÀ.GA ina URU.[x x x x] / ⸢SUḪUR⸣ um-me ša URU.tu*-⸢x⸣+[x x] / ⸢SUḪUR⸣ A.ŠÀ šá mARAD—d[x x x] / ⸢SUḪUR⸣ A.ŠÀ ša mGÌR*.2*—[x x x] / [x x x x] ⸢LÚv*⸣.tur-[tan x x x x] / [IGI mx x x]-šú IGI [mx x x x x] / [IGI md]⸢PA*⸣—MU—PAB [x x x] / [ITI.x] UD 22-KAM lim-⸢mu⸣ / [m]DI-ma-nu—MAŠ MAN [KUR—aš-šur.KI]
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335339.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335339). 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/P335339/.
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