Position in chronology
SAA 06 330. Duplicate of the Preceding Text (660-IV-26) (ADD 0445)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) Se[al of Adad-naṣir], (cylinder seal impression) (2) [scribe] of [the house of Aššur-le'i, owner of the gar]den and the man [being sold]. (4) [A vineyard in] Si[ngara, in the house of Ištar, 1,000 vi]nes [within it; an estate] of two hectares of land; [a grove of oak trees; an estate] of 6 hectares of land, [including] a m[eadow], [a seed-cor]n house and a house; (Break) (r 1) [He shall place x minas of refined silver and one mina of pure gold in the lap of Ištar] residing in Ni[neveh, and shall return] the money te[nfold to its owner]. He shall con[test] in his lawsuit [and not succeed].…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
NA₄.[KIŠIB mdIM—PAB-ir] / [LÚ.A.BA] ša* [É mAN.ŠÁR—ZU] / [EN GIŠ].⸢SAR LÚ⸣ [ta-da-a-ni] / [GIŠ.SAR ina] KUR.si-⸢in⸣-[ga-ra ina É—d15] / [01 lim] ⸢GIŠ⸣.til-lit [ina ŠÀ-bi] / [É] ⸢02⸣ ANŠE A.ŠÀ [qab-lu šá GIŠ.al-la-an] / [É] ⸢06⸣ ANŠE A.ŠÀ ⸢ú⸣-[šal-lu] / [É ŠE.NUMUN]-⸢MEŠ É⸣ [ina ŠÀ-bi] / [KUG.GI sak-ru ina bur-ki d15] ⸢a*-ši*-bat* NINA*⸣.[KI GAR] / kas-pu ⸢a⸣-[na 10-MEŠ-te a-na EN-MEŠ-šú GUR-ra] /…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335386.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Sippar-Yahrurum (mod. Tell Abu Habbah) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335386). 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/P335386/.
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