SAA 06 334. Remanni-Adad Buys Land in the Rab Šage Province (ADD 0429)

~700 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P335372

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 6

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(1) [S]ea[l of NN, seal of] Ken-abua, his son, (2) [in] all 2 m[en from ...], owners of the field under irrigation, [people, and vineya]rd being sold. (stamp seal impressions) (4) [An estate of x hectares of land ...] adjoining the field of Šep-Issar, [......]ranu, [...... adjoining the field] of Gallulu, [......]; (7) [an estate of] 6 hectares [of land adjoining the road which lead]s [to ...] (Break) (15) [adjoining the road which le]ads [to ...], adjoining Kusanu, [......]...; (17) [an estate of x hectares of land ...] adjoining the garden [of NN, the road which] leads [to the town…

State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).

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Transliteration

⸢NA₄.KIŠIB⸣ [mx x x NA₄.KIŠIB] mGIN—AD*-u-a A-šú / ⸢PAB*⸣ 02* ⸢LÚ⸣.[x x x x x]-a.a EN A.ŠÀ.GA / É ši*-⸢qi*⸣ [UN-MEŠ GIŠ].⸢SAR⸣ ta-da-a-ni / [É x ANŠE A.ŠÀ.GA x x] ⸢SUḪUR⸣ A.ŠÀ ša mGÌR*.2*—15 / [x x x x x x x x x x x x x]-ra-a-nu / [x x x x x x x x SUḪUR A.ŠÀ] ⸢ša⸣ mga-lul / [x x x x x x x x x x x x x É] 06* ANŠE / [A.ŠÀ SUḪUR KASKAL ša a-na URU.x x x DU-u]-⸢ni⸣ / [x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ qi* [x x…

Scholarly note

Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335372.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335372). 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/P335372/.

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