Position in chronology
SAA 06 113. Purchase of a Vegetable Garden (702-V-25) (ADD 0365)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Instead of his seal [he imp]ressed his fingernail. (2) Fingernail of Batu'a, owner of the garden being sold. (fingernail impressions) (4) A vegetable garden (in) Kalgurig, [belonging to] Batu'a — (6) [...]ši has contracted and [bought it] for 5 shekels of silver. (7) [The money is paid complet]ely. (Break) (r 1) [He shall return the money] tenfold to [its owner]. He shall contest [in] his [lawsuit] and not succeed. (r 3) Witness Šumaya. (r 4) Witness Kinihmâ. (r 5) Witness Hatianu. (r 6) Month Ab (V), 25th day, eponym year of Nabû-le'i.
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/P335309/
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Transliteration
ku-um NA₄.KIŠIB-šú ṣu-pur-šú iš-kun / ṣu-pur mba-tu-ʾa-a / EN GIŠ.SAR SUM-ni / ⸢GIŠ⸣.SAR ša Ú.SAR URU.kal-gu-rig* / [ša] mba-tú-ʾa-a ú-piš-ma / [mx x]+⸢x⸣-ši ina ŠÀ-bi 05 GÍN-MEŠ KUG.UD / [x x (x) il-qi kas-pu gam]-mur o* / [kas-pu ana] 10-MEŠ-te ⸢a*-na*⸣ [EN-šú GUR] / [ina de-ni]-šú DUG₄.DUG₄-ma là TI / IGI mšu-ma-a.a / IGI mki*-ni-iḫ-ma-a / IGI mḫa-ti-a-nu / ina ITI.NE UD 25-KAM / lim-mu mdPA—ZU
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335309.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) ? — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335309). 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/P335309/.
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