Position in chronology
SAA 14 255. Purchase of Land in Kisiri (ADD 0380)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(1) [Fingernail of NN], fingernail of [NN], (2) [owners of the f]ield being sold. (fingernail impressions) (3) An estate of 1 hectare 5 decares of field in [... in] Kisiri adjoining the field of Issar-alik-pani, adjoining the road [that] leads [t]o [...]. (8) An estate of 3 decares of field adjoining [...], adjoining the field [...], adjoining ditto [...] — (11) [NN] has contracted them [fr]om Mušallim-[...] (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[ṣu-pur mx x x] ṣu-pur m[x x x] / [x x x x ŠÀ].GA SUM-ni / ⸢É⸣ 01 ANŠE 5(bán) ŠÀ.GA ina [x x] / [ina*] URU.⸢ki⸣-si-⸢ri*⸣ / SUḪUR ŠÀ.GA ⸢ša*⸣ m⸢15*⸣—DU—⸢IGI⸣ / SUḪUR <$o$> KASKAL [ša a]-na ⸢URU*.x <x⸣> / i-la-ku*-u-ni / É 3(bán) ŠÀ.GA SUḪUR [x]+⸢x x⸣ / SUḪUR ŠÀ.GA [x x x] / SUḪUR KI.MIN [x x x x x] / [ú]-piš-ma m[x x x x x] / [TAv] IGI mmu-⸢DI?⸣-[x x x]
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335324.
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/P335324/..
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/P335324/.
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