Position in chronology
SAA 06 042. Šumma-ilani Buys a House (692-II-10) (ADD 0326)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Instead of his seal he impressed his fingernail. (2) Fingernail of Dusî, owner of the house being sold. (space for seal impressions) (3) A built house with its beams and doors, a sleeping room, its yard, its bathroom, servants' quarters, two thirds of the main building, an upper floor, a storehouse, and a wing with a tomb in it — (8) Šumma-ilani, chariot driver of the chamberlain, has contracted and bought it for 3 minas of silver by the (mina) of the king. (11) The money is paid completely. That house is purchased and acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is void. (14)…
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/P335270/
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Transliteration
⸢ku⸣-um NA₄.KIŠIB-šú ṣu-pur-šú GAR-un / ⸢ṣu-pur⸣ mdu-si-i EN É SUM-ni / É ep-šú a-di GIŠ.ÙR-MEŠ-šú / a-di GIŠ.IG-MEŠ-šú É—NÁ TÙR-šú / É—TU₅-šú É—02-e 2/3* šá É—dan-ni / É NIM É.a-bu-sa-te É—ŠU / KI.MAḪ ina ŠÀ-bi ú-piš-ma / mBE-ma—DINGIR-MEŠ-ni LÚ.mu-kil—KUŠ.PA-MEŠ / ša LÚ.šá—UGU—É-a-ni / ina ŠÀ 03 MA.NA KUG.UD ina šá LUGAL TI-qí* / kas-pu gam-mur ta-ad-din / É šu-a-tú za-rip laq-qí / tu-a-ru…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335270.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) ? — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335270). 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/P335270/.
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