Position in chronology
SAA 06 302. Purchase of a House (670?) (ADD 0332)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [In]stead of his seal [he impressed his fingernail]. (fingernail impressions) (2) Fingernail of Šep-Issar, [owner of the house being sold]. (3) A built [house] with [its] be[ams] and doors, ...[...] (5) [...] the rear [...] (6) [...] bedroom [...] (7) adjoining [......] (8) adjoining Si[......] (9) [...] hectares [...] — (10) [NN has contracted and bought (said property) from] Šep-[Issar] (Break) (r 1) [He shall bring four harb]akannu [horses to the feet of Nergal]. [He shall place x minas of sil]ver to the l[ap of [......, and shall return the money] tenfold [to its owners]. (r 4) He…
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/P335276/
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Transliteration
[ku]-um NA₄.KIŠIB-šú [ṣu-pur-šú iš-kun] / ⸢ṣu⸣-pur mGÌR.2—d⸢15*⸣ [EN É ta-da-ni] / [É] ep-šú a-di GIŠ.[ÙR-MEŠ-šú] / [a-di] ⸢GIŠ⸣.IG-MEŠ-šú maš-⸢x⸣+[x x x x] / [x x (x)] ku-tal-li [x x x x] / [x x] ⸢É⸣—KI.NÁ [x x x x x] / [SUḪUR] md[x x x x] / [SUḪUR] m⸢si*⸣-[x x x x x] / [x x x] ANŠE [x x x x x] / [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ [x x x x x] / [TA IGI] mGÌR.2—[d15 x x] / [04 ANŠE.ḫar]-⸢ba*⸣-kan*-⸢ni*⸣ [ina KI.TA…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335276.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335276). 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/P335276/.
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