Position in chronology
SAA 06 032. Gazilu Buys a Building Plot (707-VI-15) (ADD 0350)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) [Fin]gernail [of Ubru-Allaya], owner [of the vacant lot being sold]. (fingernail impressions) (3) A vacant l[ot adjoining Nu]rtî, a garden, an estate of 1 hectare 6 decares of land in the town of Bit-Da[gan], adjoining the garden of Arbailayu, (the estate of) Qurdi-Issar, the canal of Adian, and (the estate) of Bel-taklak — (8) Gazilu has contracted, purchased and acquired it for 80 minas of copper. (10) The money is paid completely. That land is purchased and acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is void. (13) Whoever in the future, at any time, lodges a complaint, whether…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
⸢ṣu⸣-pur [mSUḪUŠ—a-la-a-a] / EN [kaq-qi-ri pu-ṣe-e SUM-ni] / kaq-qi-ri pu-[ṣe-e SUḪUR? m]⸢MAŠ*⸣-i / GIŠ.SAR É 01 ANŠE 6(bán) A.ŠÀ ina URU.É—da-[gan] / SUḪUR GIŠ.SAR ša mURU.arba-ìl-a.a / SUḪUR mqur-di—15 SUḪUR ḫi-ri-te / ša URU.a-di-an SUḪUR mEN—tàk-lak / ú-piš-ma mga-zi-lu / ina ŠÀ-bi 80 MA.NA URUDU-MEŠ i-zi-rip / i-si-qi kas-pu ga-mur ta-din / A.ŠÀ.GA šu-a-tú za-rip la-qi / tu-a-⸢ru⸣ de-nu…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335294.
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/P335294/..
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/P335294/.
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