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SAA 06 125. Purchase of Two Estates (698) (ADD 1179+)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [Inste]ad of his seal he impressed his fingernail. (2) Fingernail of Nabû-šimanni, owner of the field being sold. (fingernail impressions) (4) An estate of 3 hectares 8 decares of land adjoining Marduk-ereš, alongside the canal of the shrine, and adjoining Giri-Ṣapunu and [...]; (7) [an estate of x] hectares adjoining the road of the popl[ar] (grove), [...] and Nabû-šezib[anni] — (10) [Na]bû-[...-idd]ina [has contracted and bou]ght (said property) [for x tale]nts and 7 minas of copper. (11) The money [is paid] completely. That land [is acqui]red and purchased. (r 1) [Whoe]ver [seeks] a…
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/P335959/
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Transliteration
[ku]-⸢um⸣ NA₄.KIŠIB-šú ṣu-pur-šú / ⸢iš⸣-kun ṣu-pur mdPA—ḪAL-ni / EN A.ŠÀ SUM-na / É 03 ANŠE 8(bán) A.ŠÀ / SUḪUR mdAMAR.UTU—APIN-eš ši-di PA.⸢BARAG?.GA*⸣ / SUḪUR mgír—ṣa-pu-nu SUḪUR m⸢x⸣+[x x] / [É x] ANŠE SUḪUR KASKAL GIŠ.A.<TU>.GAB.[LIŠ*] / [x x x] SUḪUR mdPA—še*-zib*-[an-ni] / [ú-piš-ma md]⸢PA?⸣—[x]—⸢AŠ?⸣ / [ina ŠÀ x GÚ].UN* 07* ⸢MA*⸣.NA URUDU-MEŠ / [il]-qí* kas*-pu* ga-am-ru / [ta-din] A*.ŠÀ…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335959.
Attribution
Image: BM 099131 + BM 099207 + BM 099353 (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335959). 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/P335959/.
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