Position in chronology
SAA 06 159. Sale of a Building Plot Near Arbela (687) (ADD 0353)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Instead of his seal [he impressed his] fingern[ail]. (fingernail impressions) (2) Fingernail of Nabû-šezibanni, [...]. (3) A vacant lot behind the city of Arbela, adjoining the field of Ṭukî and [the fiel]d of Nabû-[...] (Break) (r 1) Witness [......]. (r 2) Witness Sin-abu-uṣur, scri[be], keeper of the tablet. (r 3) Month [..., ...th] day, eponym year of Se[nnacherib].
Source: 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/P335297/
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Transliteration
⸢ku-um⸣ NA₄.KIŠIB-šú ⸢ṣu-pur⸣-[šú iš-kun] / ṣu-pur mdAG—še-zib-a-ni [x x*] / kaq-qi-ri pu-ṣe-⸢e⸣ / ina ku-tal-li ša URU.arba-⸢ìl⸣ / SUḪUR A.ŠÀ ša mṭu-ki-⸢i*⸣ [o] / [SUḪUR A].⸢ŠÀ⸣ md⸢AG*⸣—[x x x] / ⸢IGI*⸣ [x x x x x x] / IGI md30—AD—PAB ⸢LÚ⸣.A.[BA] / ṣa-bit IM ITI.[x UD x-KAM] / lim-mu md⸢30*⸣—[PAB-MEŠ—SU]
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335297.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) ? — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335297). 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/P335297/.
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