Position in chronology
SAA 06 120. Purchase of a Vineyard (699-VII-22) (ADD 0371)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) Fingernail of Ahu-ila'i, [...], owner of the [vine]yard [being so]ld. (fingernail impressions) (3) [A vineyard] of [x] thousand vines in the town Medun [adjoining the land of] Piqaqu (Break) (r 1) [Witness ...] Se-abi from [...]. (r 2) [Witness ...] of Irri. (r 3) Witness Kaqqadanu, eunuch. (r 4) Witness Qurdi-Adad from [...]. (r 5) Witness Anaku. (r.e. 6) Month Tishri (VII), 22nd day, ep[onym year of Bel-šarrani], governor of Kurbail.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Spotted an error? Suggest a correction — confirmed corrections feed the engine's knowledge base.
Transliteration
⸢ṣu-pur⸣ mPAB—DINGIR-⸢a*.a*⸣ [x x x x] / EN GIŠ.SAR [GIŠ.til-lit-te SUM]-⸢ni*⸣ / [GIŠ.SAR x]-⸢lim* GIŠ*.til*⸣-lit*-te ina* URU*.me*-du*-⸢un*⸣ / [x x x x x] mpi-⸢qa⸣-qi / [x x x x x x]+⸢x-te⸣-e / [x x x x x x x x]-di / [x x x x x m]⸢se*⸣—AD* ⸢URU⸣.[x x] / [x x x x x x] ⸢x⸣ ša* URU*.ir?-ri* / [IGI] mSAG*.DU*-a*-nu LÚv.SAG / IGI m⸢qur⸣-di—10 URU*.⸢li*-x⸣-gam*-a.a / ⸢IGI*⸣ m*ana-ku o* / [ITI].DUL UD 22?-⸢KAM⸣ [lim-mu mEN—MAN-a-ni] / LÚv.GAR.KUR URU.kur-ba-ìl
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335315.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335315). 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/P335315/.
Related tablets
Related sources
An early example of administrative writing from Uruk. Its fragmentary numerical entries and commodity signs document record-keeping during the formative period of writing.
An early surviving historical monument that joins named rulers, a territorial dispute and religious oaths. It shows how a city-state turned victory into a lasting public claim, without establishing that this was the first recorded conflict.
Among the oldest surviving written law collections. It provides an early witness to royal justice and specified compensation, rather than a starting date for law itself.