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SAA 06 288. A ‘Genie’ Buys Land at the ‘Gate of Hell’ (ADD 0469)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [Fingernail of ......] Urburu, (2) [son of Lipugu], a genie of Kar-Nergal, (3) [......] land of Gasupi. (space for fingernail impressions) (4) [An estate of x hectares of land in] the meadow of [...], [adjoining ..., adjoining] Akisu, adjoining Ham[...]ru, (6) [...] ... [...] (7) [...] another palace [...] (9) [...] house [......] (10) [...] adjoining Ma[......], (11) [...]s in [......] (12) adjoining the grave(yard), where [there is no] wa[ter] (and) where no barley is brought forth; (13) an estate of two hectares [of land] in the steppe (of) the town [...]te, an estate of [...], an…
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/P335408/
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Transliteration
[ṣu-pur x x x x x x x] mur-bu-ru / [DUMU mli-pu-ú-gu LÚ.d]⸢ALAD*⸣ šá URU.kar—dU.GUR / [x x x x x x x x] ⸢KUR⸣.ga-su-pi / [É x ANŠE A.ŠÀ ina] ú-šal-li šá ⸢ka⸣ [x x]-tar* / [SUḪUR x x x SUḪUR m]⸢a⸣-ki-su SUḪUR mḫa-am*-⸢x⸣+[x x]-⸢ru*⸣ / [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-MEŠ ⸢x⸣ DI-mu ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x] / [x x x x x] ⸢É*⸣.GAL* 02*-u* [x x x x x x x x] / [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ É* [x x x x x x x x x x] / [x x x]+⸢x⸣ SUḪUR…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335408.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335408). 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/P335408/.
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