Position in chronology
SAA 14 042. Kakkullanu Buys 20 Hectares of Land in Abi-ila’i (*625-XI-13) (ADD 0414)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(1) Seal of Lulabbir-šarrussu, son of Marduk-šarru-uṣur, owner of the field, threshing floor and garden being sold. (stamp seal impressions) (4) An estate of one decare less than 2 hectares of field adjoining the field of Bel-ibni, adjoining the field of Balṭaya, (6) an estate of 1 hectare of field adjoining the field of Aššur-ila'i, adjoining the field of Kakkullanu, (8) an estate of 8 decares of field adjoining the side road to Sairi, adjoining the field of Bel-ibni, (10) an estate of 9 decares of field adjoining the wadi, adjoining an erected stone, (11) an estate of 5 decares of field…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB mlu-lab-bir—MAN-us-su / DUMU mdAMAR.UTU—MAN—PAB / EN A.ŠÀ ad-ri GIŠ.SAR SUM-ni / É 1(bán) LAL a-na 02 ANŠE A.ŠÀ gab-di A.ŠÀ šá mEN—DÙ / gab-di A.ŠÀ ša mbal-ṭa-a.a / É 01 ANŠE A.ŠÀ gab-di A.ŠÀ ša maš-šur—DINGIR-a.a / gab-di A.ŠÀ ša mkak-kul-la-nu / É 8(bán) A.ŠÀ gab-di AMA ša URU.sa-i-ri / gab-di A.ŠÀ ša mEN—DÙ / É 9(bán) A.ŠÀ gab-di na-ḫal-li / gab-di NA₄ zaq-pu É 5(bán) A.ŠÀ / gab-di…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335357.
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/P335357/..
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/P335357/.
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