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SAA 06 201. Mannu-ki-Arbail Buys a Vineyard (680-II-28) (ADD 0360)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [Seal of] Idraya, owner of the garden being sold. (space for stamp seal impressions) (2) A planted vineyard in the town of Urulli, adjoining a threshing floor, a grove, the road which goes to Kipšuna, one which leads to the ferry, and the garden of Adad-ibni — (7) Mannu-ki-Arbail, the cohort commander, has contracted and bought it from Idraya for 31 shekels of silver. (10) The money is paid completely. That vineyard is purchased and acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is void. (13) Whoever in the future, at any time, lodges a complaint, whether Idraya or his sons, grandsons,…
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/P335304/
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Transliteration
[NA₄.KIŠIB m]id-ri-ía EN GIŠ.SAR SUM-ni / GIŠ.SAR zaq-pu šá GIŠ.til-lit / ina URU.ur-ul-li SUḪUR ad-ri / SUḪUR qab-li SUḪUR KASKAL šá ina URU.kip-šu-u-ni / DU-u-ni SUḪUR šá a-na mu-še-bi-rit DU-ni / SUḪUR GIŠ.SAR šá mdIM—DÙ-ni / ú-piš-ma mman-nu—ki-i—URU.arba-ìl / LÚ.GAL—ki-ṣir TAv IGI / mad-ra-ía ina ŠÀ 31 GÍN-MEŠ KUG.UD / TI-qí kas-pu gam*-mur ta-ad-din / GIŠ.SAR šu-a-tú za-rip laq-qí / tú-a-ru…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335304.
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/P335304/..
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/P335304/.
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