Position in chronology
SAA 06 311. Remanni-Adad Buys a House (666-XI-1) (ADD 0331)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) Seal of Issar-duri, seal of Lu-šakin, [s]on of Abšiešu the Egyptian, owners of the house being sold. (blank seal space) (4) A built house with its beams and doors in the town Bet-Eriba-ilu (on) the outskirts of the city of Ṣab-Adad — (7) Remanni-Adad, chief chariot driver of Assurbanipal, king of Assyria, has contracted and bought it from Issar-duri and Lu-šakin for 4 minas of silver by the mina of Carchemish. (11) The money is paid completely. The house is purchased and acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit, or [liti]gation is void. (13) Whoever in the future, [at any ti]me, lodges a…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[NA₄].KIŠIB md15—BÀD NA₄.KIŠIB mlu—šá-kin / ⸢DUMU⸣ m⸢ab*⸣-ši-e-šu LÚ.mu-ṣur-a.a / EN É SUM-ni / É ep-šu* a-di GIŠ.ÙR-MEŠ-šú a-di / GIŠ.IG-MEŠ-šú ina URU.É—mSU—DINGIR / qa-an-ni šá URU.ERIM-MEŠ—dIM / ú-piš-ma mrém-an-ni—dIM LÚ.DIB—⸢KUŠ.PA⸣-MEŠ / dan-nu ša maš-šur—DÙ—A LUGAL KUR—aš-šur.KI / TAv pa-an md15—BÀD TAv IGI mlu—šá-kin / ina ŠÀ 04 MA.NA KUG.UD ina 01 MA.NA-⸢e⸣ šá URU.gar-ga-mis / TI-qí…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335275.
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/P335275/..
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/P335275/.
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