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SAA 14 127. Gabbu-ilani-ereš Buys an Estate in Samanu (Iraq 32 03)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (space for seal impressions) (1) An estate of one hectare of land a[djoining ...] (2) ditto Sukki-Aya, ditto [...], (3) adjoining the field of [...] (4) [... of] field ad[jo]in[ing ...] (5) [......] (6) ditto [A]hi-du[ri ...] (7) ditto [...] (8) ditto [...] (9) In all an estate of 2 hectares (in its) en[tir]ety, in cultivation in Sa[man]u — (11) Gabbu-ilani-ereš has contracted and bought for 50 shekels of silver. (r 2) The money is completely paid. That field is purchased and acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is void. (r 5) Whoever breaks the contract…
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/P336189/
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Transliteration
⸢É⸣ 01 ANŠE A.ŠÀ ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] / [:.] mTE-a.a : [x x x x] / ⸢gab-di⸣ A.ŠÀ ša ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] / ⸢x⸣+[x (x)] A.ŠÀ ⸢gab?-di?⸣ [x x x x] / [x x]+⸢x⸣ x [x]+⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] / :. [m]⸢PAB?—BÀD?⸣ [x x x x x x] / :. [m]⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x] / :. md[x x x x x x x x] / PAB É 02? <⸢x> ANŠE gi⸣-[mir]-⸢ti⸣ / ina ma-za-ru-ti ina URU.sa-[ma]-⸢na⸣ / ú-piš-ma mgab-bu—⸢DINGIR-MEŠ-ni⸣—APIN-eš / ina ŠÀ 50 GÍN-MEŠ…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P336189.
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/P336189/..
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/P336189/.
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