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SAA 06 169. Purchase of 30 Hectares of Land, People, and Fowl (686) (ADD 0443)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Seal of Gadi-il, owner of the land, people, and fowl being sold. (space for stamp seal impressions) (3) An estate of 30 hectares of land adjoining the king's road leading [from] Maliyati [to] Kannu', [the w]adi running from Adian to the vill[age] of [...]ha, and the road leading from the village of the god to Kannu', all the way to the river, i[n ...]; (11) [a vac]an[t l]ot in the city [of ...]; (12) Tarhundapî [..., his] son [NN, his] wife [...] (Break) (r 1) [The money] is paid [comp]letely. Th[at land, peo]ple, and fowl [are purchased and acquired. Any revo]cation, [law]suit or…
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/P335384/
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Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB mga-di—DINGIR / EN A.ŠÀ UN-MEŠ MUŠEN-MEŠ SUM-an / ⸢É⸣ 30 ANŠE A.ŠÀ SUḪUR KASKAL—LUGAL / [šá TAv] ⸢URU⸣.ma-li-ia-ti / [a-na] ⸢URU⸣.kan-nu-uʾ DU-ku-u-ni / [SUḪUR na-ḫal]-li šá TAv URU.a-di-an / [a]-na URU.⸢ŠE⸣—m[x]-⸢x⸣-ḫa* DU-ku-u-ni / SUḪUR KASKAL ša TAv URU.ŠE—DINGIR / a-na URU.kan-nu-uʾ DU-⸢ku⸣-[u]-ni / ⸢a⸣-di UGU ÍD ina ⸢ŠÀ⸣ [x x x] / ⸢kaq⸣-qi-[ri] ⸢pu⸣-ṣe-e ina URU.[x x x] /…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335384.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Theodore Kwasman and Simo Parpola , Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part I: Tiglath-Pileser III through Esarhaddon (State Archives of Assyria, 6), 1991. Lemmatised by Melanie Groß, 2010–2011, as part of the FWF-funded research project "Royal Institutional Households in First Millennium BC Mesopotamia" (S 10802-G18) directed by Heather D. Baker at the University of Vienna. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P335384/..
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/P335384/.
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