Position in chronology
SAA 14 375. Lease of Land (ADD 1253)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) [......] (2) [NN, ...] — (r 1) [NN] has contracted [and bo]ught an estate of 4 hectares of field in culti[vation for x] years for [......] (r 4) whoever [...] the silver (r 5) [...] field [...] (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/P336014/
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Transliteration
(blank) ina? ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] / (blank) mad-[x x x x x] / ú-piš-ma m⸢d⸣[x x x x] / É 04 ANŠE A.ŠÀ ina ma-⸢az⸣-[ru-te] / [ana x]+⸢x⸣ MU.AN.NA-MEŠ ina ŠÀ [x x x] / [il]-qi man-nu ša kas-pu ⸢x⸣+[x x x] / [x x]+⸢x A.ŠÀ⸣ [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 P336014.
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/P336014/..
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/P336014/.
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