Position in chronology
SAA 06 321. Duplicate of the Previous Text (ADD 0439)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) [Seal of] Kinanni-Issar, Qatnean [...], owner of the land and peo[ple being] sol[d]. (stamp seal impressions) (4) [An estate of 15 hectares of l]and [adjoin]ing the road [which l]eads (from) the village of [Dannaya]to [the village of Ildiši] and adjoining [...]; (6) [x gardens adjoining the field of Lu... and] the field of Iddini[ya]; (7) [an estate of 4 hectares of land adjoining the road [lea]ding [from the vil]lage of Dannay[a to the village of ...]; (8) [a total of 5 (hectares) adjoining Išmanni-... and] the road [lead]ing to [the village of ...] (Break) (r 1) Witness…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[NA₄.KIŠIB m]GIN*-⸢a⸣-ni—d15 LÚv.[x x x] / ⸢URU*⸣.qat*-ta-na-a.a EN A.ŠÀ.GA ⸢UN⸣-[MEŠ] / ⸢ta⸣-da-[ni] / [É 15 ANŠE A].ŠÀ.⸢GA SUḪUR KASKAL ša⸣ URU.ŠE—m[dan-na-a] / a*-⸢na*⸣ [URU.ŠE—mil-di-ši il]-lak-u-ni SUḪUR [x x x x] / [x GIŠ.SAR-MEŠ SUḪUR A*.ŠÀ* šá mlu-x x x] SUḪUR A.ŠÀ ša mSUM-ni*-[ia] / [É 04 ANŠE A.ŠÀ SUḪUR KASKAL šá TAv] ⸢URU⸣.ŠE—mdan-na-a [o] / [a-na URU.ŠE—mx x x il-lak]-u-[ni] / [PAB 05…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335382.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335382). 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/P335382/.
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