Position in chronology
SAA 06 012. Inurta-ila’i Buys More Land (715)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) [Inst]ead of his seal he impress[ed] his fingernail. (2) [Fing]ernail of Šamaš-tabni-uṣur, son of haruspex, [owner] of the land being sold. (space for seal impressions) (4) An estate of 1 hectare of land in the ... adjoining the field of the vizier and the field of Aplî; (6) an estate of 8 decares of land on the narrow road adjoining the field of Ahi-ṭaba and the land of Urda-Issaran; (8) an estate of 1 hectare of land upon the side road of the Chaldeans, adjoining the field of Nabû-ahhe-eriba and the field of Marduk-bel-uṣur; (10) an estate of 8 decares of land adjoining the field of…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
⸢ku-um⸣ NA₄.KIŠIB-šú ṣu-pur-šú ⸢iš-kun⸣ / [ṣu]-⸢pur⸣ mdUTU—tab-ni—PAB A LÚ.AZU / [EN] A.ŠÀ SUM-⸢ni⸣ / É 01 ANŠE A.ŠÀ i-na ma-al-gu-te / SUḪUR A.ŠÀ šá LÚ.SUKKAL SUḪUR A.ŠÀ šá mA-i / É 8(bán)* A.ŠÀ i-na KASKAL qa-at-ni / SUḪUR A.ŠÀ šá mPAB—DÙG.GA SUḪUR A.ŠÀ mARAD—AN.GAL / É 01 ANŠE A.ŠÀ ina UGU AMA šá LÚ.kal-da-a / SUḪUR A.ŠÀ šá mdPA—PAB-MEŠ—SU SUḪUR A.ŠÀ / šá mdŠÚ—EN—PAB É 8(bán) A.ŠÀ SUḪUR A.ŠÀ /…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335326.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Theodore Kwasman and Simo Parpola , Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part I: Tiglath-Pileser III through Esarhaddon (State Archives of Assyria, 6), 1991. 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/P335326/..
Translation excerpted from Kwasman, T. & Parpola, S. 1991. Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part I: Tiglath-Pileser III through Esarhaddon. SAA 6. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa06/P335326/.
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