Position in chronology
SAA 14 470. Putayu Buys Land (ADD 1175+)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [Instead of his seal he impressed] his fingernail. (2) [Fingernail of Urdu-Dag]an, [..., owner of the land being s]old. (fingernail impressions) (4) [An estate of ... adjoining] the road to Calah. (5) [......] Ṣuṣi (6) [...] ditto Apaya, (7) [...] ditto Se'-amuti. (8) [...]... Calah. (9) [......] field of Adad-ibni, (10) [...] ditto ditto Nergal-na'di, (11) [...] 3 decares of field in cultivation — (12) Putaya [has contract]ed and bought [from ...]unu [for x minas of silver]. (15) [The money is pa]id [completely]. That field is [purchased and acquired]. Any revocation, [lawsuit, or…
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/P335956/
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Transliteration
[ku-um NA₄.KIŠIB-šú] ṣu-pur-šú [iš-kun] / [ṣu-pur mARAD?—da]-⸢ga⸣-na [LÚ.x x] / [EN A.ŠÀ] ⸢ta⸣-da-a-[ni] / [É x x x SUḪUR] KASKAL URU.kal-a-ḫa / [x x x x x x] KUR*.ṣu*-ṣi* / [x x x x x] : ma-pa-a.a / [x x x x x] : mse-eʾ*—a-mu-ti / [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-nu* URU*.ka-la-ḫa* / [x x x x x x] A.ŠÀ ša mdIM—DÙ / [x x x x x] : : md*MAŠ*.MAŠ*—I / [x x x x x] 3(bán) A.ŠÀ ina ma-za-ru-u-te <$x$> / [(x x)…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335956.
Attribution
Image: BM 099116 + (British Museum, London, UK) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335956). source
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/P335956/.
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