Position in chronology
SAA 06 188. Purchase of a Vineyard (682-II-25) (ADD 0363)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) Seal of Quwayu son of K[ubabu-...] from Tarqana, owner of the vine[yard being sold]. (cylinder seal impression) (3) [A vine]yard [... in the cit]y of Turs[ana ..., adjoining the viney]ards of [NN] and [NN] (Break) (r 1) Wi[tness .... Witness] Tarditu-ah[he]. (r 2) Witness [NN, cha]riot driver. Witness Aššur-šarru-u[ṣur]. (r 3) Witness [...]-eriba. Witness Ullu, porter. (r 4) Witness Qibit-Aššur. Witness Ilu-mutaqqin. (r 5) Month Iyyar (II), 25th day, eponym year of Nabû-šarru-uṣur of Marqasa. (r 6) It is a vineyard providing regular offerings to Aššur and Mullissu. (r 7) Witness Riba-ahhe, legate of Kar-Šamaš. (r 8) Witness Aplaya son of Mušallim-Aššur, ditto. (r 9) Witness Mannu-ka-ahhe, mayor of Tursana. (e. 1) The water outsi[de the vineyard ......].
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB mqu-u-a.a* DUMU [m]⸢kù*⸣-[KÁ—x x] / URU.tar-qa-na-a.a EN GIŠ.[SAR SUM-ni] / ⸢GIŠ⸣.SAR ša til-lit-te* [x x] / [ina* ŠÀ*] ⸢URU⸣.tu-ur-⸢sa⸣-[na x x] / [SUḪUR] ⸢GIŠ⸣.SAR ša m[x x x] / [SUḪUR GIŠ].⸢SAR⸣ ša m[x x x] / ⸢IGI⸣ [x x x x IGI] mtar-di-tú—⸢PAB*-MEŠ*⸣ / IGI m[x x x LÚ].⸢mu⸣-kil—PA-MEŠ IGI maš-šur—MAN—⸢PAB⸣ / IGI m⸢d⸣[x x]—SU IGI mul-lu LÚv.Ì.DU₈ [o] / IGI mqí-bit—aš-šur IGI…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335307.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) ? — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335307). 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/P335307/.
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