Position in chronology
SAA 06 115. Purchase of Land (702) (ADD 1180)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) [Seal of ......]ni, [owner of the lan]d being sold. (fingernail impressions) (3) [An estate of] 4 hectares of land in the town of Dunnu; [...] 1/2 of a well; 1/5 of a well — (5) Aššur-aplu-uṣur has contracted and [bought it] for [x min]as of s[ilver] (by the mina) of the king. (Break) (r 1) [Witness Šama]š-iddina. Urda-ahhešu. (r 2) [Witness] Nabû-na'id. (Witness) Nabû-naṣir, palace farmer. (r 3) [Witness NN], from the town of Mera. (r 4) [Month ..., ...]th [day, eponym year of Nabû-le'i], governor of Arbela. (r 6) [Witness NN], scribe.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[NA₄.KIŠIB mx x x]-⸢ni*⸣ / [EN A.ŠÀ].⸢GA⸣ ta-dan-ni / [É] 04 ANŠE A.ŠÀ.GA ina URU.du-ni / [x x]+⸢x⸣ mi-šil bu-ri 05*-su* ša bu-ri / [ú]-⸢piš⸣-ma maš-šur—A—PAB ina ŠÀ-bi / [x MA].⸢NA* KUG*⸣.[UD] ša* ⸢LUGAL* TI*-qí*⸣ / [IGI mdx]+⸢x⸣—SUM*-⸢na* m⸣ARAD—PAB-MEŠ-šú / [IGI m]⸢d⸣AG*—I* m*dPA—PAB-ir LÚv.ENGAR—KUR / [IGI mx x x]+⸢x⸣-ši* URU.me-ra-a.a / [ITI.x UD x]-⸢KAM⸣ / [lim-mu mdPA—ZU] GAR.KUR URU.arba-ìl / [IGI mx x x x LÚv].⸢A*.BA*⸣
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335960.
Attribution
Image: BM 099132 (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335960). 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/P335960/.
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