Position in chronology
SAA 06 161. Ribate Adds to his Land (686-X-7) (ADD 0374)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Seal of Mannu-lis[ame], (2) seal of Adad-naṣir, (3) seal of Ṭabussu, (4) seal of Adad-iqbi, owners of the land being s[old]. (fingernail and stamp seal impressions) (5) An estate of 1 hectare 3 decares of land between ditches, adjoining the fields of Kanunayu, Muqallî, Nuhšaya, and Mušezib-[...] — (10) Ribate has contracted, purchased, and b[ought] the field from the[se] men for 4 shekels of sil[ver]. (14) The money is pa[id] completely. That field is purchased and acq[uired]. Any revocation, lawsuit or li[tigation] is void. (r 1) Whoever in the future, at any time, lodges a complaint,…
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/P335318/
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Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB mman-nu—li-⸢sa⸣-[me] / NA₄.KIŠIB mdIM—PAB-ir* / NA₄.KIŠIB mṭa-bu-su / NA₄.KIŠIB mdIM—iq-bi EN A.ŠÀ ⸢SUM⸣-[ni] / É 01 ANŠE 3(bán) A.ŠÀ bir-ti ḫi-⸢ri⸣-a-te / SUḪUR A.ŠÀ ša* mITI.AB-a.a [o] / SUḪUR A.ŠÀ ša mmu-qa-⸢li-i⸣ / SUḪUR A.ŠÀ ša mḪÉ.NUN-a.a [o] / SUḪUR A.ŠÀ ša mmu-še-zib—d[x x] / ú-piš-ma mri-ba-a-[te] / ina ŠÀ-bi 04 GÍN-MEŠ KUG.[UD] / TAv IGI LÚ-MEŠ an-nu-[te] / A.ŠÀ i-zi-rip…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335318.
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/P335318/..
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/P335318/.
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