Position in chronology
SAA 06 153. Purchase of a House and People (687-IV) (ADD 0454)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Seal of Šulmu-ahhe, owner of the house and people being sold. (Blank seal space) (3) A built hou[se ...] (Break) (r 1) Witness Haldi-[...]. (r 2) Witness Nabû-zer[u-...]. (r 3) Month Tammuz (IV), [...th] day, eponym year of [Sennacherib], king of Assyria.
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/P335395/
Why it matters
Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB mDI-mu—PAB-MEŠ / EN 02 UN-MEŠ SUM-ni / ⸢É⸣ ep-[šú x x x x] / ⸢IGI* mḫal*-di*⸣—[x x] / IGI mdPA—⸢NUMUN*⸣—[x x] / ITI.ŠU UD [x-KAM] / lim-mu md[30—PAB-MEŠ-SU] / MAN KUR—⸢aš⸣-[šur.KI]
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335395.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335395). 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/P335395/.
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