Position in chronology
SAA 06 245. Dannaya Takes 210 Hectares of Land for a Silver Debt (672-XII-4) (ADD 0064)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) [Seal of ...]-ṭaba, deputy (governor) [o]f Raṣappa, (three stamp seals) (2) [owner] of the people and land being sold. (4) An estate of 200 (hectares of) land [in] the town of Qubate, [adjoin]ing the towns of Til-rahayate, Bit-Ramannu, Bit-ša-muhhi-ali, and Dur-Nanâ; Ṭaba-rigimatu-Adad, his wife and two girls of his; Nabû-šar-ilani and his wife; 2 oxen; (and) 10 hectares of sown field, (14) are placed as a pledge at the disposal of Dannaya in lieu of 15 minas of silver by the mi[na o]f Carche[mish]. (r 3) Whoeve[r] brings the [silver] shall redeem the [people and the lan]d. (r 7)…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[NA₄.KIŠIB mx-x]+⸢x—DÙG*.GA*⸣ LÚv.02-⸢i?⸣ / ⸢ša⸣ URU.ra-ṣa-pa / [EN] UN-MEŠ A.ŠÀ.GA ta-⸢da⸣-an / ⸢É*⸣ 02 me A.ŠÀ.GA / ina ⸢URU⸣.qu-ba-⸢a-te⸣ / ⸢SUḪUR⸣ URU.til—ra-ḫa-ia-te / ⸢SUḪUR⸣ URU.É—dra-man-nu / SUḪUR URU.É—LÚv.šá—UGU-ḫi—URU / ⸢SUḪUR⸣ URU.BÀD—dna-na-a / mDÙG.GA—ri-gi-ma-tú—dIM / MÍ-šú 02 MÍ.TUR-MEŠ-šú / mdPA—MAN—DINGIR-MEŠ MÍ-šú / 02 GUD.NÍTA 10 ANŠE ŠE.NUMUN-MEŠ a-ar-šú / ina ku-⸢mu⸣ 15…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335016.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335016). 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/P335016/.
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