Position in chronology
SAA 06 209. Sale of a House, Field and Threshing-Floor (ADD 0617)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(Beginning destroyed) (1) Seal of [NN], son of Abaya, (2) Seal of [...]data, his daughter, (3) [a total of 2 per]sons, bakers of the grand treasurer, [owners of the house, field and thre]shing-floor being sold. (Break) (r 1) [Witness NN, chariot] driver. (r 2) [Witness NN], chariot driver (r 3) [Witness Nabû-ze]ru-iddina, scribe. (r 4) [Witness Nabû]-eṭir-napšati, scribe. (r 5) [Witness ...]nu, scribe of the grand treasurer. (r 7) [Witness ...]-šezib, mayor [of] Arbela.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[NA₄.KIŠIB mx x A m]ITI.NE-a.a / [NA₄.KIŠIB MÍ.x]-da-ta DUMU.MÍ-su / [PAB 02 LÚ]-MEŠ-e LÚv.NINDA-MEŠ ša LÚv.IGI.DUB GAL-e / [EN É A.ŠÀ ad]-ri ta-da-ni / [IGI mx x x x LÚv.mu-kil]—KUŠ.PA-MEŠ / [IGI mx x x x LÚv].mu-kil—KUŠ.PA-MEŠ / [IGI mdPA]—⸢NUMUN⸣—AŠ LÚv.A.BA / [IGI mdPA]—KAR-ir—ZI-MEŠ LÚv.A.BA / [IGI mx x]-nu LÚv.A.BA / [ša LÚv].IGI.DUB GAL-e / [IGI mdx]—še-zib LÚv.ḫa-za-nu / [x x x x] URU.arba-ìl
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335534.
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/P335534/..
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/P335534/.
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