Position in chronology
SAA 14 346. Lease of 4 Hectares of Land in Samanu (ADD 1169)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(1) Seal of Zeru-ukin, owner of the field being sold. (stamp seal impressions) (3) An estate of 4 hectares of land [... belon]ging to Zeru-ukin, in Samanu, (6) [adjoini]ng the road of [...], (7) [adjoini]ng the field of [NN], (8) [adjoini]ng [...], (9) [...] silver [...] (10) [...] Is[...] (11) [...] Ya[...] (Break) (r 1) [...] Ṭab-ṣil-[...] is placed [as a pledge]. (r 2) He shall enjoy it for three [crop] year[s] and 3 fa[llow] years, in all 6 years. (r 5) [...] upon [...]. (r 6) He shall enjoy the usufruct of the field for three crop years. (r 7) Witness Nabû-naṣir. (r 8) Witness…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB mNUMUN*—GIN / EN A.ŠÀ SUM-an-ni / ⸢É⸣ 04 ANŠE A.ŠÀ.GA / [x] ⸢ša⸣ mNUMUN*—GIN / ina URU.sa-ma-nu [o] / ⸢SUḪUR⸣ KASKAL ša URU.[x x] / ⸢SUḪUR⸣ A.ŠÀ ša m[x x] / ⸢SUḪUR⸣ URU.e-[x x x x] / [x x] KUG.UD [x]-aš o* / [x x] URU.is-[x x] / [x x] URU.ia-[x x]+⸢x⸣ / [x x x] ⸢x⸣+[x x x] / [x m]DÙG.GA—ṣil—[x x x] / šá-ki-ni 03* MU*.[AN.NA-MEŠ x] / 03 MU.AN.NA-MEŠ ⸢kar*⸣-[ap-ḫi] / PAB 06 MU.AN.NA-MEŠ…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335951.
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/P335951/..
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/P335951/.
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