Position in chronology
SAA 14 040. Kakkullanu Buys His Neighbour’s House in Nineveh (*625-III-17) (ADD 0325)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(1) Seal of Šarru-lu-dari, son of Ahû'a-eriba, horse trainer of the chief eunuch of the crown prince, owner of the house being sold. (stamp seal impressions) (4) A [bui]lt house with its beams, 6 doors and well within, in all a house and a barn in its entirety in Nineveh adjoining Sin-šarru-uṣur, adjoining Kakkullanu, adjoining Kanunayu and adjoining Ṭusî — (10) Kakkullanu has contracted and bought for 2 minas of silver. (12) The money is paid completely. That house purchased and acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is void. (15) Whoever in the future, at any time, lodges a…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB mMAN—lu—dà-ri A mPAB-u-a—SU / LÚ.GIGIR ša LÚ.GAL—SAG šá A—MAN / EN É SUM-ni / É [ep]-šú a-du GIŠ.ÙR-MEŠ-šú / 06 GIŠ.IG-MEŠ PÚ ina ŠÀ-bi / PAB É tal-pi-tú a-na gi-mir-te-šá / ina URU.NINA SUḪUR md30—MAN—PAB / SUḪUR mkak-kul-la-ni / SUḪUR mITI.AB-a.a SUḪUR mṭu-si-i / ú-piš-ma mkak-kul-la-ni / ina ŠÀ 02 MA.NA KUG.UD / il-qi kas-pu gam-mur ta-din / É šu-a-tú za-rip la-qi / tú-a-ru de-e-nu…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335269.
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/P335269/..
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/P335269/.
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