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SAA 06 335. Remanni-Adad Purchases Land near Qatna (ADD 0418)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) [An estate] of two hec[tares of land of the ...]eans, in Q[atna, adjoining ......], the Ha[bur] River, (the field of) [...]-lešir, and the maintenance field of [...]; (5) an estate of 10 hectares of land of the [...]eans, in Qatna, adjoining the village of Kini, the city gate of Qatna, and the royal road of Dur-Katlimmu; (8) a total of 50 hectares of land under irrigation, a house, a threshing floor, and two vegetable gardens in the town of Burrim next to the city of Qatna — (11) Remanni-Adad, chief chariot driver of Assurbanipal, king of Assyria, has contracted and…
Source: 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/P335361/
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Transliteration
[É] 02 ⸢ANŠE⸣ [A.ŠÀ ša LÚv.x x x x]-⸢a⸣.a / ina URU.⸢qa*⸣-[di-né-e SUḪUR x x x x] / SUḪUR ÍD.⸢ḫa*-bur*⸣ [SUḪUR mx x x]—SI.SÁ / SUḪUR ma-ú*-te ša [mx x x x x]-⸢ni*⸣ / É 10 ANŠE A.⸢ŠÀ ša* LÚv*.x x x x⸣-a.a / ina URU.qa-di-né-e SUḪUR URU.ŠE—mki-i-ni / SUḪUR KÁ.GAL ša URU.qa-di-né-e SUḪUR KASKAL—MAN / ša URU.BÀD—a-du-ku—01-lim PAB 50 ANŠE A.ŠÀ / É ši-qi É ad-ru 02 GIŠ.SAR-MEŠ Ú.SAR-MEŠ / ina…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335361.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335361). 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/P335361/.
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