Position in chronology
SAA 06 173. Purchase of an Estate (685-VIII) (ADD 0430)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Seal of Nabû-eṭir-napšati, son of Ibniya, scribe, owner of the field and people being sold. (space for seal impressions) (4) An estate of 20 hectares of land, an irrigated field, a vegetable garden belonging to Zarî son of Nabû-dammiq, his wife, 1 daughter [......] (Break) (r 1) Witness A[...]. (r 2) Witness Nabû-[...]. (r 3) Witness La[...], (r 4) Month Mar[chesvan (VIII), ...th day, epony]m year of Aššur-da''i[nan]ni. (r 6) Witness Nabû-[eṭ]ir-napšati, scribe, keeper of the tablet.
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/P335373/
Why it matters
Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB mdPA—KAR-ir—ZI-MEŠ / DUMU mib-ni-ia LÚ.A.BA / EN A.ŠÀ UN-MEŠ SUM-ni / É 20 ANŠE A.ŠÀ ú*-gar*-ru / GIŠ.SAR ša Ú.SAR ⸢ša⸣ mNUMUN-i / bur* mdPA—SIG₅ MÍ-su-šú* / 01 DUMU.MÍ ⸢x⸣+[x x]+⸢x⸣ [x x x x x] / IGI m⸢a*⸣-[x x x] / IGI m⸢dPA⸣—[x x x] / IGI m⸢la*⸣-[x x x] / ITI.⸢APIN⸣ [UD x-KÁM lim]-⸢mu⸣ / maš-šur—⸢KALAG⸣-[in-an]-ni / IGI mdPA—⸢KAR⸣-ir—ZI-MEŠ / LÚ.A.BA ṣa-bit ṭup-pi
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335373.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335373). 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/P335373/.
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