Position in chronology
SAA 06 320. Remanni-Adad Purchases Land (664-X-17) (ADD 0377)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(Beginning destroyed) (1) owner of the house, [land, and people being sol]d. (space for stamp seal impression) (2) An estate of 15 hectares of land adjoining the road which lea[ds] (from) the village of [Dannaya] to the village of Ildiši; (4) [x gar]dens adjoining the field of Lu[... and the field of] Iddinaya; (5) an estate of 4 hectares of [land adjoining the road which [lea]ds [from the vill]age of Dannaya to the vil[lage of ...], a total of 5 (hectares) adjoining the field of Išma[nni-...] (Break) (r 1) Witness Sin-ašared, 'third man' of the pr[ince]. (r 2) Witness Zarutî, cohort…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
⸢EN* É*⸣ [A.ŠÀ UN-MEŠ] ⸢SUM⸣-ni / É 15 ANŠE A.ŠÀ SUḪUR KASKAL šá* URU.ŠE—m[dan-na-a] / o* a-⸢na⸣ URU.ŠE—mil-di-ši DU-⸢ú⸣-[ni] / [x GIŠ].⸢SAR*⸣-MEŠ SUḪUR A.ŠÀ šá mlu*-[x x x] / [SUḪUR A.ŠÀ šá] ⸢mSUM*⸣-na-a É 04 ANŠE [A.ŠÀ] / [SUḪUR KASKAL šá TAv] ⸢URU⸣.ŠE—mdan-na-a a-na ⸢URU?⸣.[ŠE] / [mx x x DU]-⸢u*⸣-ni PAB 05 SUḪUR mḪAL-a-[ni—dx] / [IGI] md*30—MAŠ LÚ.03-šú šá* ⸢DUMU*⸣—[MAN] / IGI mNUMUN-ut-ti-i…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335321.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335321). 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/P335321/.
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