Position in chronology
SAA 06 100. Aplaya Buys a Tower and 10 Hectares of Land (698-III-10) (ADD 0473)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Instead of their seals Harura[nu] and Salilanu impressed their fingernails. (fingernail impressions) (3) A tower (and) an estate of 10 hec[tares of land] in the midst of a meadow in the town of [...]; Abdi-Kububi, [his] wife and [two sons], a total of 4 persons belonging to H[aruranu] and [Salilanu] — (7) [Aplaya has contracted and bought (said property) from them for x minas of silver]. (9) [The tower together with the fie]lds [and Abdi-Kubu]bi together with [his] peo[ple are paid for, purchased and] acquired. [Any revocation, lawsuit] or litigation [is void]. (13) [Whoever] in the…
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/P335412/
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Transliteration
ku-um NA₄.KIŠIB-šú-nu mḫa-ru-ra-[a-nu*] / msa-li-la-a-nu ṣu-bar-šú-nu iš-⸢kun*⸣ / URU.i-si-tú bé-et 10 ⸢ANŠE⸣ [A.ŠÀ.GA] / ina ŠÀ-bi ú-šal-li ina URU.[x x x] / mab-di—ku-bu-bi MÍ-[šú 02 DUMU-MEŠ-šú] / PAB 04 LÚv*.ZI-MEŠ ša m⸢ḫa⸣-[ru-ra-a-nu] o* / ⸢ù*⸣ [msa-li-la-a-nu ú-piš]-ma m[DUMU.UŠ-a.a] / [TAv ŠU.2-šú-nu ina ŠÀ x MA.NA KUG.UD il-qí] / [URU.i-si-tú a-du A].⸢ŠÀ.GA⸣-[MEŠ] / [mab-di—ku-bu]-⸢bi⸣…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335412.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335412). 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/P335412/.
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