Position in chronology
SAA 06 119. Nabu-šarru-uṣur Buys 5 Hectares of Land (699-V-10) (ADD 1167)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) [Instead of his] sea[l] he impressed his fingernail. (2) Finger[nail] of Addî, owner of the land being sold. (fingernail impressions) (3) Eight decares of land in [the village of] Bit-bala[ṭ]i, adjoining the fields of Gagî and Šamaš-iqiša; (6) 6 decares of land [adjoining the ro]ad to Kar-Issar and the fields [of] Addî and Šamaš-iqiša; (9) 3 decares of throne land in a meadow adjoining Gagî and Šamaš-iqiša; (11) 1 hectare in a meadow adjoining the fields of Addî and Šamaš-iqiša; (13) 3 hectares of land on high ground adjoining Addî and Šamaš-iqi[ša]; (15) a total of 5 hectares and 2…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[ku-um] NA₄.⸢KIŠIB⸣-[šú] ṣu-pur-šú iš-kun / ṣu-[pur] md⸢IM*⸣-i EN A.ŠÀ ⸢SUM⸣-ni / 8(bán) A.ŠÀ ina [URU.ŠE]—É—bala-⸢ṭi⸣ / SUḪUR A.ŠÀ ⸢ša⸣ mga-gi-i / SUḪUR A.ŠÀ [ša] mdUTU—BA-šá / 6(bán) A.ŠÀ [SUḪUR] ⸢KASKAL⸣ URU.kar—d15 / SUḪUR A.ŠÀ [ša] mdIM-i / SUḪUR [A.ŠÀ] ⸢ša⸣ mdUTU—BA-šá / 3(bán) A.ŠÀ GIŠ.GU.ZA ina ú-šal*-li / SUḪUR m*ga-gi-i SUḪUR mdUTU—BA-šá / 01 ANŠE ina ú-šal*-li SUḪUR A.ŠÀ / ša [md]IM-i…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335949.
Attribution
Image: BM 099104 (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335949). 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/P335949/.
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