Position in chronology
SAA 06 315. Remanni-Adad Buys Land and Personnel (666-XII-1) (ADD 0420)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(Beginning destroyed) (1) An estate of 60 hectares [of land by the seah of 10 'litres'], a barnyard in [its] enti[rety], (and) a plot of 2 decares, a threshing floor, in Til-Nahiri; (4) Qarhâ , farmer, Eni-i[l], a weaned boy, Abšâ, h[is] brother, and Papâ, their mother; (6) in all 5 pers[ons], an estate of 60 hectares of land and a barnyard in its entirety — (9) Remanni-Adad, chariot dri[ver of A]ssurbanipal, king of Assyria, has contracted and bought (said property) [fro]m Nušhu-sall[ihanni for x min]as of silver by the mina [of] Carchemish. (14) [The mon]ey is paid completely. Those…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
É ⸢60 ANŠE⸣ [A.ŠÀ ina GIŠ.BÁN ša 10 qa] / É tal-pi-tú a-⸢na gi⸣-[mir-ti-šú] / É 2(bán) ad-ru i-na URU.DUL—na-⸢ḫi⸣-[ri] / mqar-ḫa-a LÚ.ENGAR me*-ni—⸢DINGIR*⸣ / 01 DUMU pir-su mab-šá-a ŠEŠ-⸢šú*⸣ / MÍ.pa-pa*-a AMA-šú*-nu PAB 05 ZI-[MEŠ] / É 60 ANŠE A.ŠÀ É tal-pi-⸢tú*⸣ / a-na gi-mir-ti-šá ú-piš-⸢ma⸣ / mrém-a-ni—dIM LÚ.DIB—KUŠ.[PA-MEŠ] / [ša] m*aš-šur—DÙ—A LUGAL KUR—aš-šur.⸢KI*⸣ / [TAv] ⸢IGI⸣…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335363.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335363). 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/P335363/.
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