Position in chronology
SAA 06 211. Mannu-ki-Arbail Buys an Estate (676?) (ADD 0460)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) [An estate of x hec]tares of fie[ld in] Kannu', adjoining the side road of Kannu' and the road that leads to Nuhub; (4) including a garden [...] adjoining the garden of [...]ašidi, (6) a total of 40 (hectares of) land [......] (Break) (r 1) He shall g[ive] 10 minas of silver [and x mi]nas [of pure gold] to Ištar residing in Nineveh, and shall return the money tenfold to its owners. (r 4) He shall contest in his lawsuit and not succeed. The judge shall not listen to his case. (r 6) [Witness] Ar[ze]zu, cohort commander. (r 7) [Witness Habasti], head porter. (r 8) [Witness Kiṣir-Issar], cohort commander. (Rest destroyed)
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/P335401/
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Transliteration
[É x] ⸢ANŠE* A*⸣.[ŠÀ ina] ⸢URU*.ka*-an*⸣-[nu-uʾ] / ⸢SUḪUR⸣ um-me ⸢ša*⸣ URU.ka-an-nu*-[uʾ] / SUḪUR KASKAL ša a-na URU.nu-⸢ḫu*⸣-bi ⸢DU⸣-[u-ni] / GIŠ.SAR ina ŠÀ-bi [x x]-⸢ú⸣-ri / SUḪUR GIŠ.SAR ša [x (x) x]+⸢x⸣-a-ši-di / PAB*-ma* 40* A.ŠÀ ⸢x⸣+[x x]+⸢x x x x⸣ / [x x x x x x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x] / 10 MA.NA KUG.UD [x MA].⸢NA*⸣ [KUG.GI sak-ru] / ina dIŠ.TAR a-ši-pat* URU.ni-nu-a ⸢SUM⸣-[an] / kas-pu ina 10-MEŠ-te…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335401.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335401). 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/P335401/.
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