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SAA 06 176. Mušallim-ilu Buys Two Estates (ADD 0376)
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High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (blank seal space) (1) An estate of 5 hectares of lan[d ...], adjoining [......], the big wadi [...], and the road leading [to] the town [...]hute; (5) [an estate of x ...] of land adjoining the houses of Zabayu and Kidinnu; these are the adjoining (houses) of the house — (9) Mušallim-ilu has contracted and (bought said property) [fo]r 20 minas of copper [by] the mina of the mountain. (r 1) The money is paid completely. That house (and) land are purchased and acquired. Whoever in the future, at any time, transgresses, whether Zabayu or his sons, shall [place] one mina of…
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/P335320/
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Transliteration
É 05 ANŠE A.⸢ŠÀ⸣.[GA x x x]+⸢x a*⸣ / SUḪUR ḫa-⸢x⸣+[x x] ⸢kam*⸣ [x x x]-mar* / SUḪUR ⸢na⸣-ḫal-li ⸢dan⸣-[ni x x x] / SUḪUR KASKAL ša [a-na] URU.⸢x-ḫu?-ú*⸣-te* / DU-u-ni [x]+⸢x x x x⸣+[x]+⸢x⸣ A.ŠÀ.GA / SUḪUR ⸢É⸣ mza*-⸢ba*-a*⸣.a / SUḪUR É m⸢qi*⸣-di-ni / an-nu-u-te SUḪUR-MEŠ* ša* É* / ú-piš-ma mmu-⸢šal⸣-lim—DINGIR / [ina ŠÀ]-bi 20 MA.NA URUDU-MEŠ / [ina] MA.NA-e ša KUR*-e o* / kas-pu ga-mur ta-din / É…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335320.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335320). 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/P335320/.
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