Position in chronology
SAA 06 271. Pledge of More than 24 Hectares of Land (678) (ADD 0630)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) [Seal of ......], own[er of the ... being sold]. (blank seal space) (3) An estate of 10 hectares (with) a manure house, adjoining [the wadi], (the estate of) Nabû'a, the road leading to Ibla, and the road leading to Sumurunu, ......; (6) an estate of 8 hectares (with) [x] wells, adjoining the wadi, the side road to Yaranu, and the exempt field of the land of Zarutî; (10) an estate of 6 hectares (with) [x] wells, adjoining the road leading to [the village of Te]manayu [and the side road] of the village of Temanayu; (14) [an estate of x hectares, adjoining] the field of Akpalu, [the road]…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[NA₄.KIŠIB mx x x x x x x x] / ⸢EN⸣ [x x x x x x x x] / ⸢É⸣ 10 ANŠE É zi-ib-li SUḪUR / [na-ḫal?] ⸢SUḪUR⸣ mdPA-u-a SUḪUR KASKAL.2 šá a-na URU.ib-li DU-u-ni / ⸢SUḪUR⸣ KASKAL šá a-na URU.su-mur-u-nu DU-u-ni / [x] MAN i-kar-ri-ka É 08 ANŠE / [x] bu-ra-a-ni ⸢SUḪUR⸣ na-ḫal / ⸢SUḪUR⸣ um-me šá URU.ia-ra-nu / ⸢SUḪUR⸣ A.ŠÀ za-ku-ti šá A.ŠÀ / [šá m]NUMUN-ut-ti-i É 06 ANŠE / [x bu]-ra-ni ⸢SUḪUR⸣ KASKAL.2 šá…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335545.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335545). 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/P335545/.
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