Position in chronology
SAA 06 258. Sale of Land (680-I-28) (ADD 0631)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) Seal of Sin-šar-ilani, owner of the field and garden being sold. (stamp seal impressions) (3) A house, [a field, and a gar]den [...] (Break) (r 1) Witness Nabû-taklak, [...]. (r 2) Witness Aplu-iddina, archer. (r 3) Witness Šulmu-ahhe, ditto. (r 4) Witness Nergal-šarru-uṣur, son of Dayyan-Adad. (r 5) Witness Kalhayu, chariot driver. (r 6) Month Nisan (I), 28th day, eponym year of Dananu of Marqasa. (e. 1) The sown seed [is] als[o .......].
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB md30—MAN—DINGIR-MEŠ EN A.ŠÀ / GIŠ.SAR ta-da-ni / É [A.ŠÀ GIŠ].⸢SAR x⸣+[x x x x] / IGI mdAG—tak-lak [x x x] / IGI mA—MU LÚ.ma-ḫi-ṣu / IGI mDI-mu—PAB-MEŠ KI*.MIN / IGI mdMAŠ.MAŠ—MAN—PAB DUMU mDI.KUD—10 / IGI mURU.kal-ḫa-a.a LÚ.mu-kil—KUŠ.PA-MEŠ / ITI.BARAG UD 28-KÁM / lim-mu mdan-na-nu / šá URU.mar-qa-sa / ŠE.NUMUN ar-šú is-se*-⸢niš*⸣ [x x x x x]
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335546.
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/P335546/..
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/P335546/.
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