Position in chronology
SAA 06 252. Abi-rami, Sister of the Queen Mother, Leases Land (674-III-11) (ADD 0070)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [Seal of NN] of Gaza, [son of Amu]r-ilu, [own]er of the lan[d] being given over. (stamp seal impressions) (4) An estate of 3 hectares 4 decares of lan[d ...], adjoining (the estates of) Ahi-ya[qar], Il-ya[...] and Ila['i-...] (Break) (r 1) the city of Ši[...], on a hill — a total of 8 hectares 3 decares of exempt land, void of straw and [corn] taxes, in the town of Baruri — (r 6) Abi-rami, the sister of the queen mother, has contracted and will enjoy it as a pledge for three fallow years (and) three cultivated years in lieu of 1/2 mina of silver. (r.e. 10) (If) he places the silver upon…
Source: 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/P335022/
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Transliteration
[NA₄.KIŠIB mx x] ina* KUR.ḫa-zi*-te / [DUMU ma]-⸢mur—DINGIR⸣ / [EN*] ⸢A*.ŠÀ⸣ SUM-ni / É 03* ANŠE* 4(bán)? ⸢A⸣.[ŠÀ* x x] / SUḪUR mPAB—ia-[x x x] / SUḪUR mDINGIR—⸢ia⸣-[x x] / [SUḪUR m]⸢DINGIR*-a*⸣.[a—x x x] / ⸢URU*⸣.ši-[x] ⸢x x⸣ [x x] / ina mu*-le-⸢e*⸣ [o] / PAB É 08 ANŠE 3(bán)* ⸢A⸣.[ŠÀ] / za-ku-te la ŠE.ši-ib-še ⸢la*⸣ [ŠE.nu-sa-ḫi] / ina URU.bar-ú-⸢ri*⸣ [o] / ú-piš-ma MÍ.AD—ra-mi / NIN-sa ša…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335022.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335022). 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/P335022/.
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