SAA 06 155. A Fragmentary Real Estate Sale (687-VII-15) (ADD 0456)

~700 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P335397

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 6

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(Beginning destroyed) (1) [...... adjoining the road that] (2) le[ads from ... to .......] (3) from [......]; (4) an estate [of x hectares of land ......] (5) adjoining the vil[lage of ......] (6) adjoining the villa[ge of ......] (7) Babu-[......], (8) [his] 3 daughters [and ..., a total of x persons] — (9) [...] has contracted [and bought] (said property) for 100 [minas of copper] from [...] (Break) (r 1) Witness [......] (r 2) Witness Mar-[......] (r 3) Witness Remanni-[......] (r 4) Witness Itta[......] (r 5) Witness Marṣiš-a[dallal, ...] (r 6) Witness Ubru-[......]. (r 7) Witness Ubru-Nabû, [...]. (r 8) Month Tishri (VII), 15th day, [eponym year of Sennacherib], king of [Assyria].

State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).

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Transliteration

⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x] / ⸢DU?⸣-[u-ni x x x x x x x x] / TA [x x x x x x x x] / É [x x x x x x x x] / SUḪUR ⸢URU⸣.[ŠE—x x x x x] / SUḪUR URU.⸢ŠE?⸣—[x x x x x] / mdBA.Ú—[x x x x x x x x] / 03? DUMU.MÍ-MEŠ-[šú x x PAB x ZI-MEŠ] / ú-piš-[ma mx x x x x x] / ina ŠÀ 01 me [x MA.NA URUDU-MEŠ] / ⸢TA IGI⸣ m[x x x x x] / IGI [mx x x x x x x] / IGI mmar-[x x x x x] / IGI mrém-an-ni—[x x LÚ.x x] / IGI…

Scholarly note

Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335397.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335397). 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/P335397/.

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