Position in chronology
SAA 06 277. A Fragmentary Estate Sale (674-VII) (ADD 0404)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) [Se]al of Nabû'a of Til-hawar, owner of the house, field, threshing-floor, tabriu and well in the courtyard being sold. (stamp seal impressions) (5) [An estate of x] hectares of land adjoining the fi[eld of ...] (Break) (r 1) Witness Bel-Harran-duri, [...]. (r 2) Witness Qurdî. Witness Ya[...]. (r 3) Witness Nahirî. Ditto Dan[...]. (r 4) Witness Utâ. Ditto Lu[...]. (r 5) Witness Ululayu. Ditto Abi-yaqar. (r 6) Witness Nuranu. Ditto Dannaya. Ditto Dim[...]. (r 7) Witness Issaran-belu-uṣur. Ditto Nabû-naṣir. (r 8) Witness Yadi'. A total of two (witnesses) from Eunuch Town. (r 9) Witness…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB mdPA-u-a [o] / ša URU.til—ḫa-ú-⸢ar⸣ / EN É A.ŠÀ ad-ru tab-ri-[u] / PÚ ina tar-ba-ṣu SUM-ni* / [É x] ⸢ANŠE⸣ A.ŠÀ SUḪUR ⸢A.ŠÀ⸣ [x x] / IGI mEN—KASKAL—⸢BÀD LÚv*.x⸣+[x x x x] / IGI mqur-di-i IGI mia-[x x x] / IGI mna-ḫi-ri-i : mdan-[x x x] / IGI mú*-ta-a : mlu-[x x x] / IGI mKIN-a.a : mAD—ia-⸢qar⸣ / IGI mZÁLAG-a-nu : mda-na-ia : mdim*-⸢x⸣+[x x] / IGI mAN.GAL—EN—PAB : mdPA—PAB-ir / IGI…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335347.
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/P335347/..
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/P335347/.
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