Position in chronology
SAA 06 023. A Eunuch Buys Land in Meze (727-X-7) (ADD 1156)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Fingernail of Se'-da[lâ], fingernail of Sin-na'id, [his] brother, owners of the land being sold. (fingernail impressions) (4) An estate of 2 hectares belonging to Se'-dalâ and Sin-na'id in the town of Mezê (6) the eunuch has contracted and bought it for 5 shekels of silver. (7) The money is paid completely. The land is purchased and acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is void. (11) Any prefect who breaks the contract shall pay 10 minas of refined silver (and) one mina of pure gold, and shall return the money tenfold to its owners. He shall contest in his lawsuit and not…
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/P335938/
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Transliteration
ṣu-pur mse—da-⸢la*⸣-[a] / ṣu-pur m30—I PAB*-[šú] / EN A.ŠÀ ta-da-ni / É 02 ANŠE ša [m]se—dàl-a ša m30—I / ina* URU.mme-ze-e up-piš-ma o* / LÚv.SAG ina ŠÀ 05* GÍN KUG.UD TI / kas-pu ga-mur ta-din / A.ŠÀ za-rip TI / tu-a-ru de-e-nu / de-e-nu DUG₄.DUG₄ la-šú / man-nu GAR-nu šá GIL-u-ni / 10 MA.NA KUG.UD LUḪ-u / 01 MA.NA KUG.GI sak-⸢ru⸣ / SUM-an / kas-pu a-na 10-MEŠ-⸢te⸣ / a-na EN-MEŠ-šú GUR-ra / ina…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335938.
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/P335938/..
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/P335938/.
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