Position in chronology
SAA 06 149. A Broken Real Estate Sale (689) (ADD 0432)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) [Seal of ...], owner of the fields, gardens, and people being sold. (space for stamp seal impressions) (2) [...... in its ent]irety (3) [...... fields] in cultivation, a canal with permanent water-flow. (4) [......] its [free]dom from encumbrances has been declared (5) [......]lâ, plowman, (6) [......, a total of x] persons, (7) [......]-eriba, a total of 5 persons, (Break) (r 1) [Witness ......], ditto. (r 2) [Witness NN, ...] ditto ditto. (r 3) [Witness NN, ...] of Nineveh. (r 4) [Witness NN, ...] ditto. (r 5) [Witness NN, ...] ditto. (r 6) [Witness NN, ...] ditto. (r 8) [Month ..., ...th day, eponym year of Gihilu], governor [of Hatar]ikka.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ EN A.ŠÀ-MEŠ GIŠ.SAR-MEŠ UN*-MEŠ* SUM-ni / [x x x x x x x x x a-na] ⸢gi⸣-mir-ti-šú / [x x x x x ina] ⸢ma⸣-za-ru-te ÍD A-MEŠ ka-a.a-ma*-nu* / [x x x x x x x za?]-ka*-šá iz-zak-ru / [x x x x x x x x]-la*-a LÚ.GIŠ.APIN / [x x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ZI-MEŠ / [x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣—SU* PAB 05* ZI-MEŠ / [IGI mx x x x x x x x x x x] : / [IGI mx x x x x x x x x x] : : / [IGI mx x x x x x x…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335375.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Theodore Kwasman and Simo Parpola , Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part I: Tiglath-Pileser III through Esarhaddon (State Archives of Assyria, 6), 1991. Lemmatised by Melanie Groß, 2010–2011, as part of the FWF-funded research project "Royal Institutional Households in First Millennium BC Mesopotamia" (S 10802-G18) directed by Heather D. Baker at the University of Vienna. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P335375/..
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/P335375/.
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