Position in chronology
SAA 06 146. Tariba-Issar Takes Land as Security for a Debt (692) (ADD 0069)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) [Seal of Inurta]-ereš. (stamp seal impression) (2) [x minas of silver belong]ing to Tariba-Issar, [at the disposal of Inur]ta-ereš. (4) [x hectares of field] in the town of Šura, [adjoining the road t]o Dannanu [and the fi]eld of Aya-metunu, are placed [as a pl]edge. (8) He shall have the usufruct of the field [for three fal]low years and three crop years. (9) One shall place the silver upon the corn heap, and one shall redeem the field. (r 3) [Wit]ness Sipranu. (r 4) [Witness] Apladad-ila'i. (r 5) [Witness] Ubru-Issar. (r 6) [Witn]ess Sin-šarru-uṣur. (r 7) [Witness] Šamaš-upahhir. (r 8) [Month ..., ...]th [day], eponym year of [Zaz]aya.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[NA₄.KIŠIB mdMAŠ]—KAM-eš / [x MA.NA KUG.UD] ⸢ša⸣ mta-SU—15 / [ina IGI md]⸢MAŠ*⸣—KAM-eš / [x ANŠE A.ŠÀ] ina URU.šú-ra / [SUḪUR KASKAL] ⸢šá*⸣ URU.dan-na-a-ni / [SUḪUR A].⸢ŠÀ⸣ šá ma.a—me-tu-nu / [a-na šá]-par-ti šá-kín / [03] ⸢kar⸣-ap-ḫi 03 me-re-še / [A].ŠÀ KÚ KUG.UD / ⸢ina*⸣ UGU ŠE.ta-ra-me SUM-an / [A].ŠÀ ú-še-ṣa / ⸢IGI*⸣ msi-ip-ra-a-nu / [IGI] mdA.10—DINGIR-a.a / [IGI m]SUḪUŠ—d15 / [IGI m]d*30—MAN—PAB / [IGI m]⸢d⸣UTU—ú-pa-ḫír / [ITI.x UD x]-KÁM lim-mu / [mza-za]-⸢a⸣.a
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335021.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335021). 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/P335021/.
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