Position in chronology
SAA 11 224. List of Leased Land (ADD 0755)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) 20 hectares of land of Barak[i-...], (2) 20 hectares of land of Aššur-bani-[...]; (3) 10 hectares of land of Ṭurî; (4) [10] hectares of land of Hannî; (5) [10 he]ctares of land, prebend: (6) [in all], 70 hectares of land in the village Bisê. (7) [20] hectares of land of Dari-Bel; (8) 40 hectares of land, prebend : (r 1) in all, 60 hectares of land in the village of the Farmer. (r 2) 40 hectares of land in the town of Lu'amma; (r 3) 40 hectares of land in the village of Akkullanu. (r 4) Total of 210 hectares of land in Halahhu: (r 5) Ahiya-qamu will enjoy (the usufruct) in Halahhu.
Source: Fales, F.M. & Postgate, J.N. 1995. Imperial Administrative Records, Part II: Provincial and Military Administration. SAA 11. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa11/P335619/
Why it matters
Transliteration
20 ANŠE A.ŠÀ ša mba-ra-⸢ki?⸣—[x (x)] / 20 ANŠE A.ŠÀ ša maš-šur—DÙ—[x x] / 10 ANŠE A.ŠÀ ša mṭu-ri-⸢i*⸣ / [10?] ANŠE A.ŠÀ ša mḫa-an-ni-i / [10?] ⸢ANŠE⸣ A.ŠÀ ma-ʾu-ut-tu / [PAB] 70 ANŠE A.ŠÀ ina URU.ŠE—bi-se-e / [20] ANŠE A.ŠÀ ša mdà-ri—be-el / 40* ANŠE A.ŠÀ ma-ʾu-ut*-tu / PAB 60* ANŠE A.ŠÀ ina URU.ŠE—LÚ.ENGAR / ⸢40⸣ ANŠE A.ŠÀ ina URU.lu-u-am*-ma / 40 ANŠE A.ŠÀ ina URU.ŠE—mak-ku-la-ni / PAB 02-me-10 ANŠE A.ŠÀ ina KUR.ḫa-làḫ-ḫi / ma-ḫi-ia—qa-a-mu / ina KUR.ḫa-làḫ-ḫi e-kal
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian administrative record (provincial or military), edited by F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate (SAA 11, 1995). ORACC text P335619.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335619). source
Translation excerpted from Fales, F.M. & Postgate, J.N. 1995. Imperial Administrative Records, Part II: Provincial and Military Administration. SAA 11. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa11/P335619/.
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