Position in chronology
SAA 06 163. Purchase of an Estate in Šibaniba (686-II-15) (ADD 0453)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) [Seal of A]hu-duri, [owner of the land], house, and people being sold. (stamp seal impressions) (3) [An estate of x hectares of la]nd, a house, a threshing floor, [..., irri]gated [land] in Šibaniba; (5) [...] Milki-su[ri], his wife [NN, ...]; (7) [B]alṭaya [..., his wife] Ninui[tu, ...]; (9) Adad-er[iba, his] wi[fe ...]ša-liphur, [...] (Break) (r 1) [Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigat]ion is void. (r 3) [Whoever in the future, at any t]ime, breaks the contract, shall pay [x min]as of silver and 4 min[as of gold to Ištar residing in] Nineveh, (and) shall redeem [the field, the people and…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[NA₄.KIŠIB m]⸢PAB⸣—BÀD / [EN A.ŠÀ] É UN-MEŠ SUM-ni / [x ANŠE A].ŠÀ É ad-ru / [x x É ši]-qi ina URU.ši-ba-ni-ba / [x x x x] mmil-ki—su*-[ri] / [x x x x x]-⸢a*⸣ MÍ-šú [o] / [x x x x m]⸢bal⸣-ṭa-a.a / [x x x MÍ].⸢URU*⸣.NINA*.KI*-⸢i*⸣-[tú] / [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ mdIM—⸢SU⸣ / [x x x x x]-šá—lip*-ḫur ⸢MÍ*⸣-[šú] / [x x x x x x]-tú / [tu-a-ru de-nu DUG₄].DUG₄ la-áš-šú / [man-nu šá ina ur-kiš ina] ma-ti-ma /…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335394.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335394). 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/P335394/.
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