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SAA 06 218. Mannu-ki-Arbail Buys 20 Hectares of Land (ADD 0375)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) [In pl]ace of his seal [he impressed his fingernail]. (2) Fingernail of Hasab[u ...], owner of the land [being sold]. (fingernail impressions) (4) An estate of 20 hectares of land in N[ineveh, adjoini]ng the field of [NN] and the field of [NN] — (7) Mannu-ki-[Arbail] has contracted and bought it from Hasabu [for ......]. (9) The money [is paid] compl[etely. That land] is purchased and acquired. Any revocati[on, lawsuit, or litigation [is void. (12) Whoever in the future, [at any time, lodges a complaint], whether [Hasabu, his sons] or [...] (Break) (r 1) Witness Š[ulmu-beli-lašme]. (r 2)…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[ku]-um NA₄.KIŠIB-⸢šú⸣ [ṣu-pur-šú GAR-un] / ṣu-pur mḫa-sa-⸢bu⸣ [LÚv.x x x] / EN A.ŠÀ [SUM-ni] / ⸢É 20? ANŠE A.ŠÀ⸣ ina URU.⸢ni?⸣-[x x x] / ⸢SUḪUR⸣ A.ŠÀ ša m[x x x x x] / SUḪUR A.ŠÀ ša m[x x x x x] / ú-piš-ma mman-nu—ki—[URU.arba-ìl] / TAv IGI mḫa-sa-⸢bu⸣ [ina ŠÀ x x x x x] / il-qi kas-pu gam-[mur ta-din A.ŠÀ šú-a-tú] / ⸢za-rip⸣ la-qi tu-a-⸢ru⸣ [de-e-nu DUG₄.DUG₄ la-áš-šú] / [man-nu ša ina]…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335319.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) ? — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335319). 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/P335319/.
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