Position in chronology
SAA 14 261. Purchase of an Estate of 60 Hectares (ADD 0410)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(Beginning destroyed) (1) An estate of 60 hectares [...] (2) the best part of the town Ki[...] — [NN has purchased and acquired] from Nashur-[..., from] Remut-ili (and) from [...], for 3 mi[nas of silver], (6) adjoining the road that [leads] to [...], (7) adjoining the border [...], (8) adjoining the road that [leads] to [...]. (9) The money is pa[id] completely, [that field] is purchased and acquired. Any re[vocation, lawsuit, or liti]gation is v[oid]. (Break) (r 4) [Witness NN, ch]ariot driver. (e. 1) Witness Ubru-Adad, [...] scribe. (e. 2) Witness Sallim-Ea, [...] scribe. (e. 3) Witness Bel-emuranni, [...].
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
É 60? ANŠE [x x x x x] / SAG URU.ki-⸢x⸣+[x x ú-piš-ma mx x x] / TAv pa-an mNÍGIN—[x x x TAv pa-an] / mrém-ut—DINGIR TAv ⸢pa⸣-[an x x x] / ina ŠÀ-bi 03 MA.[NA KUG.UD il-qe] / SUḪUR KASKAL ša a-na [x x x DU-u-ni] / SUḪUR ta-ḫu-me [x x x x x] / SUḪUR KASKAL ša a-na ⸢x⸣+[x x x DU-u-ni] / kas-pu ga-mur ta-[din A.ŠÀ šú-a-tú] / za-rip laq-qi ⸢tu⸣-[a-ru de-nu] / [DUG₄].⸢DUG₄ la⸣-[aš-šú x x x] / [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 P335353.
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/P335353/..
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/P335353/.
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