Position in chronology
SAA 06 275. Aššur-iddina Buys Several Estates (675-III-1) (ADD 1196)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) S[eal] of Hasayu, seal of Ahu'a-[...], (stamp seal impressions) (3) owners of the tabriu being sold in the town Mulu[...] (and) in [...]. (5) An estate of 12 hectares of la[nd]; (6) an estate of 2 hectares of land, adjoining the wadi of Hasayu (and) Ṭab-šar-Saggil; (8) an estate of 1 hectare adjoining Ṭab-šar-Sagg[il]; (9) an estate of 1 hectare adjoining Adad-remanni; (10) an estate of 1 hectare adjoining the road of the wadi of Issete and the road to Adari; (12) an estate of 3 decares adjoining Iddin-ah[he] and the king's road; (13) an estate of 4 decares in [...], adjoining Eriba-Adad;…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
⸢NA₄.KIŠIB⸣ m⸢KUR?.ḫa?-sa⸣-a.⸢a⸣ / ⸢NA₄.KIŠIB⸣ mPAB-[u]-⸢a—x x⸣ / EN tab-ri-[u] ⸢ta*-da*⸣-a-[ni] / ina URU.mu*-lu*-⸢x⸣+[x] ⸢ina⸣ [x x x] / ⸢É* 12*⸣ ANŠE* ⸢A*⸣.[ŠÀ] [o] / [É] ⸢02?⸣ ANŠE A.ŠÀ SUḪUR ⸢na⸣-ḫal*-⸢li⸣ / ⸢ša mḫa-sa?⸣-a.a o* ⸢SUḪUR⸣ [m]⸢DÙG.GA⸣—IM—⸢sag*⸣-gi-ìl* / ⸢É⸣ 01 ANŠE SUḪUR mDÙG.GA—IM—⸢sa*⸣-gi*-[ìl] / ⸢É⸣ 01 ANŠE SUḪUR m⸢dIM⸣—rém-a-ni / ⸢É⸣ 01 ANŠE SUḪUR KASKAL ⸢ša na⸣-ḫal…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335976.
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/P335976/..
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/P335976/.
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