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SAA 06 013. Inurta-ila’i Sells the Land he Bought 7 Years Before (710) (ADD 0392)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [Ins]tead of his seal he impressed his fingernail. (2) [Fing]ernail of Inurta-ila'i, owner of the land being sold. (blank seal space) (3) [An estate] of 3 hectares of land on the edge of an irrigation outlet, adjoining the road [o]f the city of Calah and (the field of) Zabinu; (4) an estate of 7 decares of land [adjoin]ing (the field of) Urarṭayu, the road of Calah, and (the fields of) Zabinu and Bel-lu-balaṭ; (6) an estate of 3 hectares of land [adjoining] Nuh[šaya], Bel-lu-balaṭ, [and the side road of the village of Z]izî. (Break) (r 1) Witness Ubru-Is[sar, cupbearer]. (r 2) Witness…
Source: 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/P335336/
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Transliteration
⸢ku⸣-um NA₄.KIŠIB-šú ṣu-pur-šú iš-kun / ⸢ṣu⸣-pur mdMAŠ—DINGIR-a.a EN A.ŠÀ SUM-ni / ⸢É⸣ 03* ANŠE A.ŠÀ ina qa-an-ni maš-qí-te SUḪUR KASKAL* / ⸢šá*⸣ URU.kàl-ḫi SUḪUR mza-bi-ni É 7(bán) A.ŠÀ / ⸢SUḪUR⸣ mURI-a.a SUḪUR KASKAL.2 šá URU*.kàl-ḫi SUḪUR mza-bi-ni / ⸢SUḪUR⸣ mEN—lu-TI.LA É 03 ANŠE A.ŠÀ.GA / [SUḪUR] mḪÉ.⸢NUN⸣-[a.a] ⸢SUḪUR⸣ mEN—lu-TI.LA / [SUḪUR AMA šá URU.ŠE—m]⸢zi⸣-zi-i / ⸢IGI mSUḪUŠ?⸣—d⸢15*⸣…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335336.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335336). source
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/P335336/.
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