Position in chronology
SAA 06 325. Remanni-Adad Buys an Entire Village (663-X-25) (ADD 0470)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) Seal of Inurta-ila'i, deputy of the town of Dannaya; (2) seal of Asqudu, scribe of [the queen] mother; (3) seal of Hiri-ahhe, chariot driver; (4) seal of Adad-uballiṭ, 'third man'; (5) seal of Nabû-remanni, cohort commander; (6) seal of Issar-ila'i, ditto; (7) seal of Milki-idri, [ditto]; (8) seal of Mannu-ki-Arbail, cha[riot fighter]; (9) seal of Zeru-ukin, ditto; (10) seal of Dadi-ibni, ditto; a total of 10 gentlemen from Dannaya, owners of the town being sold in its entirety. (stamp seal impressions) (Break) (r 1) [whoever] seeks a lawsuit or litigation against Remanni-Adad and his…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB mdMAŠ-DINGIR*—a.a LÚv.02-u ša ⸢URU.da-na-a.a⸣ / NA₄.KIŠIB mas-qu*-di LÚv.A.BA ⸢ša AMA*⸣—[MAN] / NA₄.KIŠIB mḫi-ri—PAB-MEŠ LÚv.mu-kil—KUŠ.PA-⸢MEŠ*⸣ / NA₄.KIŠIB mdIM—TI.LA LÚv.03.U₅ / NA₄.KIŠIB mdPA—rém-a-ni LÚ.GAL—ki-⸢ṣir⸣ / NA₄.KIŠIB m15—DINGIR-a.a LÚv.:. <(GAL—ki-ṣir)> / NA₄.KIŠIB mmil-ki—id-ri [LÚv.:.] <(GAL—ki-ṣir)> / NA₄.KIŠIB mman-nu—ki—URU.arba-ìl LÚv.⸢A*⸣—[SIG] / NA₄.KIŠIB…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335409.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335409). 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/P335409/.
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