Position in chronology
SAA 06 154. Purchase of Three Storehouses in Central Nineveh (687-V-22) (ADD 0335)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) [Seal of Dayyan-Kurbail], owner of the house being sold. (stamp seal impression) (3) Three storehouses including a courtyard and a door, in Nineveh, adjoining (the houses of) Naharau, Nabû'a and Kummayu — (9) Dili[l-Issar] has contracted and bought them from Dayyan-Kurbail for 30 shekels of silver. (r 3) The money is paid completely. That house is purchased and acquired. Any revocation, lawsu[it], or litigation is voi[d]. (r 8) Whoever breaks the contract shall pay 10 minas of silver. (r 10) Witness Urda-[..., ti]ller. (r 11) Witness Ṭab-š[ar-...]. (Break) (e. 1) Witness Lu-šakin. Witness…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[NA₄.KIŠIB mDI.KUD—kur-ba-ìl] / ⸢EN É SUM⸣-ni / 03 É-⸢ŠU.2-MEŠ* TÙR⸣ [o] / 01 GIŠ.IG ina ŠÀ-bi / ina URU.NINA.KI / gab-di mna-ḫa-ra-ú / gab-di md.PA-u-a / gab-di mku-ma-⸢a⸣.a / ú-piš-ma mdi-⸢lil*⸣—[d15] / TAv IGI mDI.KUD—kur-ba-⸢il*⸣ / ina ŠÀ 30 ⸢GÍN⸣-MEŠ KUG.UD / il-qi kas-pu gam-mur / ta-SUM-ni É šu-a-te / ⸢za⸣-ar-pi la-⸢qi⸣ / ⸢tú⸣-a-ru ⸢de-e*⸣-[nu] / DUG₄.DUG₄ la-⸢áš⸣-[šú] / man-nu šá…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335279.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335279). 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/P335279/.
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