Position in chronology
SAA 06 042. Šumma-ilani Buys a House (692-II-10) (ADD 0326)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(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)…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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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.earth/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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