Position in chronology
SAA 06 210. Mannu-ki-Arbail Buys a House (676-I-24) (ADD 0330)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) Seal of Šelepu, owner of the house being sold. (cylinder seal impression) (3) A bui[lt] house [with] its [beams] and doors, a half of a thr[eshing floor ... in] the irrigated land (of) the town of Zidada, a ...[... in] its entirety, adjoining the house [of Da]di-iqbi and [the house of ...]mu-eri — (8) [Mann]u-ki-Arbail has [contracted and boug]ht it [from Še]lepu [for x minas] of silver (by the mina) [of Carchemish]. (11) The money [is paid completely]. The house is purchased [and acquired. Any revocation, law]suit, or litigation is void. (14) [Whoever in] the fut[ure, at any time, lodges…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB mše-li-pi / EN É ta-da-ni / É ep-[šú a-di GIŠ.ÙR]-MEŠ-šú a-⸢di⸣ [GIŠ].⸢IG⸣-MEŠ-šú / me-šil ⸢ad⸣-[ri x x x x] A.QAR URU.⸢zi?⸣-da-da / tak*-pi-[x x x ina] ⸢gi⸣-mir-⸢ti⸣-šá / SUḪUR É [mU?].U*—iq-bi / SUḪUR [É mx x]-mu—e-ri / ú-[piš-ma mman]-⸢nu⸣—ki—URU.arba-ìl / [TAv IGI mše]-li-pi / [ina ŠÀ x MA.NA] KUG.UD / [ša URU.gar-ga-mis] ⸢il*⸣-qi kas-pu / [gam-mur ta-din] É za-rip / [laq-qi…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335274.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335274). 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/P335274/.
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