Position in chronology
SAA 06 191. Sale of a Garden (682) (ADD 0370)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Seal of Qurdi-Issar-lamur, (2) seal of Na'id-Aššur, (3) [in a]ll 2 men, owners of the garden being sold. (cylinder seal impression) (Break) (r 1) [Witness NN], servant of the gove[rnor]. (r 2) [Month ...], 11th day, [eponym year of Adad-šar]ru-uṣur, governor of Marqasi. (r 4) The corn taxes [of] that garden shall not be exacted, he shall not do the labour service with his town.
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/P335314/
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Transliteration
⸢NA₄.KIŠIB⸣ mqur-⸢di⸣—15—la-mur / NA₄.KIŠIB mI—aš-šur / ⸢PAB⸣ 02 LÚ-MEŠ-e EN GIŠ.SAR SUM-ni / [x x x x x x] LÚv.ARAD ša ⸢LÚv*.EN*⸣.[NAM] / [ITI.x] UD 11-KAM / [lim-mu mdPA]—⸢MAN⸣—PAB LÚv.GAR.KUR URU.mar-qa-si / [šá] GIŠ.SAR šú-a-tú ŠE.nu-sa-ḫi-šú / ⸢la⸣ i-na-su-ḫu il-ku* / TAv URU*-šú* la* il-lak
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335314.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335314). 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/P335314/.
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