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SAA 14 250. Purchase of a House in Nineveh (ADD 0343)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Seal of Nur-Šamaš, owner of the house being sold. (stamp seal impressions) (3) A built house with it[s] beams, with its doors, in Nine[veh] (5) adjoining the house of Ahi-gidi, (6) adjoining the house of Hazugu, (7) adjoining the house of Mušezib-[DN], (8) adjoining the house of Ubru-Nabû, (9) adjoining the spring. The house of [...]. (10) ...[...] (Rest destroyed)
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/P335287/
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Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB mZÁLAG—dšá-maš / EN É SUM-ni / É ep-šú a-di GIŠ.ÙR-MEŠ-⸢šú*⸣ / a-di GIŠ.IG-MEŠ-šú ina URU.⸢NINA⸣ / SUḪUR É mPAB—gi-di [o] / SUḪUR É mḫa-zu-gu [o] / SUḪUR É mmu-še-zib—DINGIR-[x] / SUḪUR É mSUḪUŠ—dPA / SUḪUR e-nu É ša* bu [x x x] / it-ta-ṣa? me-ti-⸢ni⸣ [x x x x]
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335287.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335287). source
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/P335287/.
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