Position in chronology
SAA 06 028. Purchase of Land (710-I-28) (ADD 1164)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) Instead of his seal he impressed his fingernail. (2) Fingernail of Ṣalmu-ahhe, owner of the field being sold. (fingernail impressions) (3) An estate of 3 hectares of land adjoining the simpletons, the manure house, and (the estates of) Marduk-ereš, [NN and] Dadî; (6) [An estate of x hectares] of land in Kuluna (7) [......] Calah (Rest destroyed) (Beginning destroyed) (r 1) [Witness NN], may[or]. (r 2) [Witness NN], royal bodyguard. (r 3) [Witness NN], his brother. (r 4) Witness N[ab]û'a, servant of the chief cupbearer. (r 5) Witness Ahu-la-amašši, palace farmer. Witness Nabû-naṣir, also a…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[ku-um] ⸢NA₄*⸣.KIŠIB-šú ṣu-pur-šú iš-kun / ⸢ṣu*-pur⸣ mṣal-mu—PAB-MEŠ EN A.ŠÀ SUM-ni / É 03 ANŠE A.ŠÀ SUḪUR LÚ.sa*-⸢ak?⸣-lu*-te / [SUḪUR] ⸢É⸣ zi-ib-li SUḪUR mdKU*—KAM-eš / [x x x x x x] mda-a-di-i / [x x x x x x x] A.ŠÀ ina URU.ku-lu-na* / [x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ URU*.kàl*-ḫi* / [x x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-MEŠ / [x x x x x x x x x x x]-⸢ḫa*-a*⸣ / [IGI mx x x] LÚ.qur-bu-te / [IGI mx x x] (blank) PAB-šú…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335946.
Attribution
Image: BM 099069 (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335946). 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/P335946/.
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