Position in chronology
SAA 06 224. Duplicate of the Previous Text (679) (ADD 0084)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) [One] mina of silver (by the mina) of Carchemish [belonging to Silim-Aššur, at the dispos]al of Urda-Issar. He has ta[ken it as a lo]an. (4) Silim-Aššur shall take [4 hectares of cultivat]ed and 2 hectares of fallow land, (5) [a total of 6 hectares of] exempt land of his choice in the town of Hatâ, [according to the seah of 10] 'litres,' (8) [and he shall have the usufruct of it for years. He shall enjoy it for] 4 crop years [and 4 fallow years]. (Break) (r 1) [eponym year of Issi-Adad]-aninu. Witness Ahi-duri. (r 2) [Witness Se'-nuri. Witness] Šer-ila'i. (r 3) [Witness Aplu-uṣur. Witness Mannu-ki]-Arbail, [chariot fighter]. (r 4) [Witness Gurd]î. (r 5) [Witness Bitatî. Witness Nergal]-ašared.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[x x x x 01 MA].NA KUG.UD šá URU.gar-ga-mis / [ša msi-lim—aš-šur ina] ⸢IGI⸣ mARAD—d15 / [ina pu-u]-⸢ḫi*⸣ it-⸢ti-ši⸣ / [04 ANŠE me-re]-⸢še⸣ 02 ANŠE A.ŠÀ ka-rap-ḫi / [PAB 06 ANŠE A].ŠÀ za-ku-te ina URU.ḫa-ta-a / [ina GIŠ.BÁN šá 10] qa A.ŠÀ É msi-lim—aš-šur / [IGI.2-MEŠ i-šak-kan]-u-ni i-na-áš-ši / [a-na MU.AN.NA-MEŠ KÚ] ⸢04⸣ me-re-⸢še⸣ / [lim-mu mTAv—10]—a-ni-nu ⸢IGI mPAB—BÀD⸣ / [IGI mse-eʾ—nu-ri IGI m]dšér—DINGIR-a.a / [IGI mA—PAB IGI mman-nu—ki]—arba-ìl / [LÚv.A—SIG IGI mgur-di]-i / [IGI mbi-ta-ti-i IGI mU.GUR]—MAŠ
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335036.
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/P335036/..
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/P335036/.
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