Position in chronology
SAA 06 065. Bahianu Buys Land and People (692) (ADD 0440)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) [Se]al of Lukimama, [seal of] Zeru-lešir, (cylinder seal impression) (3) [owners of the field]s and people being sold. (4) [An estate of x hectare]s of land (5) [adjoining ...l]ubla (6) [......a]nniya (7) [......] irrigated fields (8) [NN], farmer, [...] — (9) [B]ahianu [has contracted and acquired (said property) for x minas of silver] by the (mina) of the ki[ng]. (Break) (r 1) [He shall enjoy the fiel]ds and the pe[ople for yea]rs [...]. [On the day that they pa]y [the silver], they shall redeem [the fields and the people]. (r 5) Month [...], 23rd [day], eponym year of Zazaya. (r 7)…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[NA₄].⸢KIŠIB*⸣ mlu-ki-ma-ma / [NA₄].⸢KIŠIB*⸣ mNUMUN—SI.SÁ / [EN A.ŠÀ]-⸢MEŠ⸣ UN-MEŠ SUM-nu / [É x ANŠE] A.ŠÀ.GA-MEŠ / [SUḪUR x x]-lu*-ub-la o* / [x x x x x x]-⸢an*⸣-ni-ia* / [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ A.QAR-MEŠ / [x x x x x x] ⸢LÚv⸣.ENGAR / [x x x ú-piš-ma m]⸢ba⸣-ḫi-a-nu / [ina ŠÀ x MA.NA KUG.UD] ina* ša ⸢MAN*⸣ / [x x x x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣+[x] / [x x x x x x x A.ŠÀ]-⸢MEŠ* UN*⸣-[MEŠ] / [x x x a-na…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335383.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335383). 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/P335383/.
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