Position in chronology
SAA 06 160. Ribate Buys an Estate of Three Hectares (687-X-7) (ADD 0624)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) Seal of Mannu-lus[a]me, (2) seal of Adad-naṣir, (3) seal of Ṭabussu, (4) owners of the land being sold. (blank seal space) (5) An estate of 3 hectares, (with) a big well; (6) an estate of 4 decares with a spring between the ditches, adjoining a ditch, (the field of) Ahu-damqu, the field of Kanunayu, Ilu-kabar, a ditch, and the fields of Ahu-uqur and Sasî — (12) Ribate has contracted and shall enjoy the land for y[ears] for 25 shekels of silver. (15) He shall cultiv[ate and reap it for x fallow and x crop years]. (r 1) The term is fixe[d. They shall place the silver] upon the corn heap,…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
NA₄.⸢KIŠIB mman-nu—lu*-sa*⸣-me* / NA₄.KIŠIB mdIM—PAB-⸢ir*⸣ / NA₄.KIŠIB mṭa-bu-su / EN A.ŠÀ SUM-[ni] / É 03 ANŠE bu-u-ru dan-nu / É 4(bán)* e-nu bir-ti* ḫi-ri-a*-te / SUḪUR ḫi-ri-te SUḪUR mPAB—SIG / SUḪUR A.ŠÀ šá mITI.AB-a.a / SUḪUR mDINGIR—ka-bar SUḪUR ḫi-ri-te / SUḪUR A.ŠÀ šá mPAB—ú-qur / SUḪUR A.ŠÀ šá msa-a-si-i / ⸢ú⸣-piš-ma mri-ba-te / ina ŠÀ 25* ⸢GÍN⸣-MEŠ KUG.UD A.⸢ŠÀ⸣ / a-na…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335540.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335540). 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/P335540/.
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