Position in chronology
SAA 06 123. Sale of Orchards for the Maintenance of Captives (698-IX-15) (ADD 0468)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Seal of Ahiqar, deputy (governor) of Arrapha. (cylinder seal impression) (2) [1 garden ...]...; 1 garden (with) 2 [...]; [1 garden ...]; a total of 3 gardens [including a spri]ng, a house, and a gardener — (5) Ahi-yababa has contracted and sold them on behalf of the deputy [for x] hundred (minas of) copper for the maintenance o[f the ca]ptives whom the vizier boarded on a ship. (9) The money is paid completely. The gardens, the spring, the house and the gardener are purchased and acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is void. (13) [Whoever] in the future [lodges] a complaint,…
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/P335407/
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Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB m⸢PAB⸣—ia-⸢qar⸣ LÚv.02-ú ša ⸢URU.arrap*-ḫa*⸣ [o*] / [01 GIŠ.SAR x] 10 ⸢x⸣-a-ni* 01 GIŠ.SAR ⸢02*⸣ [x x x] / [01 GIŠ.SAR x x]+⸢x x⸣ PAB 03 GIŠ.SAR-MEŠ / [e-nu ša A]-⸢MEŠ* É*⸣ LÚv*.NU.GIŠ.SAR / [ina ŠÀ-bi] ú-piš-ma mPAB—ia-⸢ba⸣-ba / [ina ŠÀ x]-⸢me*⸣ URUDU-MEŠ o* a*-na* ša-az-bu*-si / ⸢ša*⸣ [LÚv].⸢ḫu*⸣-ub-te* ša LÚv.⸢SUKKAL*⸣ ina UGU / GIŠ.MÁ GUB-u-ni ina UGU LÚv.02-ú SUM-ni / 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 P335407.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335407). 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/P335407/.
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