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SAA 06 217. Mannu-ki-Arbail Buys 32 Hectares of Land (ADD 0378)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Instead of [his seal he impressed his fingernail]. (fingernail impressions) (2) Fingernail of Il-[malak], owner of the land [being sold]. (4) An estate of 30 hectares of la[nd, ...] of water; an estate of 2 hect[ares ...] of sesame in ...[...], ...[...] (8) in the city of Hamê adjoining the river, [...], and a tower [...] — (11) Mannu-ki-[Arbail] has contracted and [bought] (said property) from Il-malak for 11 shekels of silver. (14) The money is paid completely. [That] land [is purchased and acquired]. (Break) (18) or [his prefect], neig[hbour or relative], (whoever) [seeks] a laws[uit…
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/P335322/
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Transliteration
ku-um [NA₄.KIŠIB-šú ṣu-pur-šú iš-kun] / ṣu-pur m⸢DINGIR⸣—[ma-la-ku] / EN A.ŠÀ [SUM-ni] / É 30 ANŠE A.⸢ŠÀ⸣ [x x x] / ša A-MEŠ É 02 ⸢ANŠE⸣ [x x x] / ša ŠE.GIŠ.Ì : ina ⸢x⸣+[x x x] / i-na-ra-šu-[x (x)] / ina URU.ḫa-me-[e] / SUḪUR ÍD SUḪUR [x x] / SUḪUR sa-ḫa-⸢ru⸣ [x x] / ú-piš-ma mman-⸢nu—ki⸣—[URU.arba-ìl] / TAv IGI mDINGIR—ma-la*-⸢ku*⸣ / ina ŠÀ-bi 11 GÍN-MEŠ ⸢KUG.UD⸣ [TI] / kas-pu ⸢ga⸣-mur ⸢ta-din⸣…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335322.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335322). 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/P335322/.
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