Position in chronology
SAA 06 031. Nabu-kabti-ahhešu, Scribe of Sargon, Buys Land (709-VIII-13) (TCL 9 58)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [Instead of their seals] they impressed the[ir fingernails]. (2) [Fingernail of NN, fingern]ail of Kê-lamši, (3) [fingernail of NN, fingernail of] Mannu-lu-ahu'a, (4) [a total of 4 gentlemen] from [Buruqu], owners of the land being sold. (fingernail impressions) (5) [An estate of 3] hectares of land belonging to [NN] in the neighbourhood of the town [of Kê-lamši], adjoining the field of Mannu-lu-ahu'a, the threshing-floor of Kurbanu as far as the wadi of Napihu, and the fields of Kurbanu and Kê-lamši; (9) [an estate of] 1 hectare 5 decares in the neigbourhood of the town of Kê-lamši,…
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/P337149/
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Transliteration
[ku-um NA₄.KIŠIB-šú-nu ṣu-pur-šú]-⸢nu iš-ku⸣-nu / [ṣu-pur mx x x ṣu]-⸢pur* mke*-e—lam⸣-ši / [ṣu-pur mx x x ṣu-pur] mman-nu—lu—PAB-u-a / [PAB 04 LÚ-MEŠ-e URU.bu-ru-qa]-a.a EN A.ŠÀ ta-da-ni / [É x] ⸢ANŠE* A*.ŠÀ* ša*⸣ [m]⸢x x⸣ ina KÁ*-at URU / [x] ⸢x x SUḪUR* A*.ŠÀ* ša* mman*-nu*—lu*⸣—PAB-u-⸢a SUḪUR* ad*⸣-ri / ⸢ša⸣ [m]kur-ba-⸢ni a-di⸣ UGU* na-aḫ-li* ⸢URU*.na*⸣-pi-ḫi / ⸢SUḪUR* A*⸣.ŠÀ* ša*…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P337149.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Theodore Kwasman and Simo Parpola , Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part I: Tiglath-Pileser III through Esarhaddon (State Archives of Assyria, 6), 1991. Lemmatised by Melanie Groß, 2010–2011, as part of the FWF-funded research project "Royal Institutional Households in First Millennium BC Mesopotamia" (S 10802-G18) directed by Heather D. Baker at the University of Vienna. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P337149/..
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/P337149/.
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