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SAA 14 126. Iata Leases 50 Hectares of Land (Iraq 32 08)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) S[eal of ...], (2) seal of [...] (3) seal of Tarteba, (4) seal of Nabû-paqa, (5) seal of Nabû-gabbu-le'i. (6) Adjoining the town Burukutunte, (7) adjoining the town Bit-Šamaš, (8) adjoining the estate of Kurbilayu, (9) adjoining the field of the palace personnel, (10) adjoining of the town of Šallimanni-Aššur. (stamp seal impressions) (11) [An estate] of 50 (hectares) of land according to the seah of 8 1/2 'litres' [in the r]ear of a [(...)] garden [of ...k]arba, son of Na[...] (r 2) — Yatâ, [has contracted and bought] from th[ese] men [fo]r 8 minas of silver by the…
Source: 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/P336194/
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Transliteration
NA₄.⸢KIŠIB⸣ [mx x x x] / NA₄.KIŠIB m[x x x x]+⸢x⸣ / NA₄.KIŠIB mtar-⸢te-e⸣-ba / NA₄.KIŠIB mdPA—pa-a-qa / NA₄.KIŠIB mdPA—gab-bu—ZU / SUḪUR URU.bu-ru-ku-tú?-un-te / SUḪUR URU.É—dUTU / SUḪUR URU.ša—kur-bi-ìl-a.a / SUḪUR A.ŠÀ ša UN-MEŠ É.GAL / SUḪUR URU.ša—DI-ni—aš-šur / [É] 50 A.ŠÀ GIŠ*.⸢BÁN⸣ 08 1/2 qa [(x x x)] / [ina?] ⸢ku?⸣-tal GIŠ.⸢SAR⸣ [x x x] / [mx (x)]-⸢kar⸣-ba DUMU mna-⸢x⸣+[x x x ú-piš-ma] /…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P336194.
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/P336194/..
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/P336194/.
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