Position in chronology
SAA 14 001. Milki-nuri Buys the Village of Nabu-šezib (668-VI-19) (ADD 0472)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(1) [Seal of ...]kiki, [......, own]er of the village being sold. (cylinder seal impression) (3) [The villa]ge of Nabû-šezib in its entirety [including] its [fi]elds, inclu[ding] its orchards, [and including] its [people] in the centre of the city of Ak[... adjoining the vill]age of Bahayu, [adjoining the vill]age of Tabal[ayu], [adjoining the vill]age of [...]ute, [adjoining the vill]age of Lu-ahhe, [and adjoining the village] of Dakanâ and [the vil]lage of Zarutî — (12) Milki-nuri, eunuch of the queen, [has contracted] and bou[ght it for x] minas of silver. (14) [The money] is paid…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[NA₄.KIŠIB mx]-⸢ki*-ki* LÚv*⸣.[x x] / [x x x x] ⸢EN*⸣ URU.ŠE ta-da-⸢ni⸣ / [URU].⸢ŠE⸣—mdPA—še-zib a-na gi-mir-ti-šú / [a-di A].ŠÀ-MEŠ-šú a*-⸢di* GIŠ⸣.SAR-MEŠ-šú / [a-di UN]-MEŠ-šú ina* ⸢qab*⸣-si* ⸢šá* URU⸣.ak-[x x x] / [SUḪUR] ⸢URU⸣.ŠE—m⸢ba⸣-ḫa-a.⸢a⸣ / [SUḪUR] ⸢URU⸣.ŠE—mta-ba-⸢la⸣-[a.a] / [SUḪUR] ⸢URU⸣.ŠE—m<$x x$>-u-te / [SUḪUR] ⸢URU⸣.ŠE—m⸢lu*-u*⸣—PAB-MEŠ / [SUḪUR URU.ŠE]—mda*-ka-na-a* / [SUḪUR…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335411.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Raija Mattila, Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part II: Assurbanipal Through Sin-šarru-iškun (State Archives of Assyria, 14), 2002. Lemmatised by Melanie Groß, 2010–2011, as part of the FWF-funded research project "Royal Institutional Households in First Millennium BC Mesopotamia" (S 10802-G18) directed by Heather D. Baker at the University of Vienna. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P335411/..
Translation excerpted from Mattila, R. 2002. Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part II: Assurbanipal through Sin-šarru-iškun. SAA 14. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa14/P335411/.
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