Position in chronology
SAA 14 425. Asalluhi-šumu-iddina Buys Land in Nabu-šemanni (*630-VIII-28) (TIM 11 01)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Seal of Zabdî, (mounted) archer, son of Hati-il from the village of Nabû-šimanni, care of Nabû-balassu-iqbi, prefect, owner of the land, house, threshing floor, orchard (and) well being sold. (stamp seal impressions) (5) An estate of 20 hectares of land by the seah of 8 'litres' by the Assyrian 'litre', in cultivation, in the estate Nabû-šimanni, (8) adjoining the road that leads to Happati, (9) adjoining the field o[f] Šulmu-beli, son of ..., (10) adjoining the field of Am-ram, [far]mer of the pal[ace] (11) adjoining the wadi of [...]gibâ (12) An estate of 10 ...[...] adjoining…
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/P337155/
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Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB mza-ab-di-i LÚ.ma-ḫi-ṣu / DUMU mḫa-ti—DINGIR TA ŠÀ URU.ŠE—mdPA—ḪAL-a-ni / ša ŠU.2 mdAG—TI-su—iq-bi LÚ.GAR-nu / EN A.ŠÀ É ad-ri GIŠ.SAR PÚ SUM-a-ni / É 20 ANŠE A.ŠÀ ina GIŠ.BÁN ša 08 qa / ina 01 qa ša aš-šur-a.a ina ma-za-ru-ti / ina URU.ŠE—mdAG—ḪAL-an-ni / SUḪUR KASKAL šá a-na URU.ḫa-ap-pa-ti DU-u-ni / SUḪUR A.ŠÀ ⸢ša⸣ mDI-mu—EN DUMU LÚ.⸢x x⸣ / SUḪUR A.ŠÀ ša mam—ra-mu ⸢LÚ.ENGAR⸣ šá…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P337155.
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/P337155/..
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/P337155/.
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