Position in chronology
SAA 06 030. Paršidu Sells an Estate (710-XII-15) (ADD 0416)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [Instead] of his [s]eal he impressed his fingernail. (2) Fingernail of Ipparšidu, owner of the field being sold. (fingernail impressions) (4) An estate of 4 hectares of land in cultivation; (5) an estate of ditto, a threshing floor, a half of a garden in the village of La-qep[u], adjoining the road of Kapar-rabuti and the road [of] the village of [...] (Break) (r 2) Witness Nergal-šarru-uṣur, eunuch of the chief [...]. (r 3) Witness Haldi-naṣir. Witness Haldi-ibni. (r 4) Witness Kê-Aya. Witness Remut-ili. (r 5) Witness Yada'-il, an Itu'ean. (r 6) A total of 6 witnesses from the village of…
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/P335359/
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Transliteration
⸢ku-um⸣ NA₄.KIŠIB-šú ṣu-pur-šú iš-kun / ṣu-pur mpar-ši-di / EN! A.ŠÀ SUM-ni / É 04 ANŠE A.ŠÀ.GA ina ma-za-ru-ti / É : ad-ru me-šil* GIŠ.SAR / ina URU.ŠE—mla—qé-pu / SUḪUR KASKAL ša URU.ŠE—GAL-MEŠ / [SUḪUR] KASKAL* [ša] ⸢URU*.ŠE*⸣—[x x] / ⸢x x⸣+[x x x x x x x x] / IGI mdU.GUR—MAN—⸢PAB LÚv*⸣.SAG ša LÚv*.GAL*—⸢x⸣+[x] / IGI mḫal-di—PAB IGI mḫal-di—⸢DÙ⸣ / IGI mke-e-a.a IGI mrém-ut—DINGIR / IGI…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335359.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335359). 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/P335359/.
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