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SAA 06 050. Šumma-ilani Buys 50 Hectares of Land and 9 People (ADD 0422)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [Se]al of Bar-[hatê], owner of the land, house, and people being [sold]. (fingernail impressions) (3) [An estate] of 50 hectares of land, 10,000 vines, and [a bui]lt [house]; (4) Hašana, his 4 sons and his wife; the woman Danqî, her son and [her] daugh[ter; a tot]al of 9 persons, servants o[f Bar-ha]tê in the town of Ti'i — (8) Šumma-ilani has co[ntracted and bought them] fr[om B]ar-hatê for 6 minas of silver by the mi[na of the king]. (11) The money [is paid] com[pletely]. That land, house, [people, and garden] are purch[ased and acquired]. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litig[ation is…
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/P335365/
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Transliteration
[ṣu]-pur mbar—[ḫa-te-e] / ⸢EN A⸣.ŠÀ É UN-⸢MEŠ SUM*⸣-[ni] / [É] ⸢50*⸣ ANŠE A.ŠÀ 10 lim GIŠ.⸢til-lit⸣ / [É] ⸢ep⸣-šú mḫa-šá-na* 04 DUMU-MEŠ-šú / ⸢MÍ⸣-šú ⸢MÍ⸣.da-an-qi-i DUMU-šá / ⸢DUMU⸣.[MÍ-sa] ⸢PAB 09*⸣ ZI-MEŠ ⸢ARAD-MEŠ⸣ / ⸢ša⸣ [mbar—ḫa]-te-e ina URU.ti-⸢ʾi⸣-i / ⸢ú⸣-[piš-ma] mšúm-mu—DINGIR-MEŠ-ni / ⸢TAv⸣ [IGI m]⸢bar⸣—ḫa-te-⸢e* ina ŠÀ⸣-bi / 06 MA.⸢NA KUG⸣.UD ina ⸢MA⸣.[NA-e ša MAN il-qí] / kas-pu…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335365.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335365). 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/P335365/.
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