SAA 06 314. Remanni-Adad Buys an Estate in Ispallure (666-XI-10) (ADD 0448)

~700 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P335389

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 6

High confidence

(1) [Se]al of Bariki, chie[f ...], seal of Abail, (3) owners of the people, vineyards and houses [being sold]. (space for stamp seal impressions) (4) A vineyard of 1,000 vines [in Izalla], adjoining the vineyard of [NN]; (6) A second vineyard of 2,00[0 vines in ..., adjoining the vineyard of NN]; (8) [a total of two] vineyards of 3,0[00 vines]; (9) [B]a'al-azuri, g[ardener], his [wife], son, and daughter; [NN, his wife and ...]; (11) in all 7 persons, two houses, two vineyards and 4 stone wal[ls] in Izalla [belonging to] Barik[i and Abail], in the town Ispallu[rê ...] — (15) Remanni-[Adad],…

State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).

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Transliteration

[NA₄].KIŠIB mba-ri-ki LÚ.⸢GAL⸣—[x x] / NA₄.KIŠIB ma-ba—il o* [x x*] / EN UN-MEŠ GIŠ.SAR-MEŠ É-MEŠ [SUM-ni] / 01 GIŠ.SAR 01 lim GIŠ*.til*-lit* [ina KUR.i-za-li] / SUḪUR GIŠ.SAR šá m⸢x⸣+[x x x x] / 02-u GIŠ.SAR ⸢02* lim*⸣ [GIŠ.til-lit x x] / [x x x x x x x x x x] / [PAB 02] GIŠ.SAR [o] 03* ⸢lim⸣ [GIŠ.til-lit] / [o m]⸢ba*⸣-al*—zu-ri ⸢LÚ*⸣.[NU.GIŠ.SAR] / [MÍ]-⸢šú*⸣ DUMU-šú* DUMU.MÍ-su m⸢x⸣+[x x x] /…

Scholarly note

Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335389.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335389). 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/P335389/.

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