Position in chronology
SAA 06 304. Remanni-Adad Purchases Gardens (669-I) (ADD 0366)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) Seal of Ze[...], gardener, servant of [NN], owner of the gardens [being sold]. (stamp seal impressions) (Break) (r 1) Witness [......]. (r 2) Witness Mušal[lim-...]. (r 3) Witness Na'id-ilu, [...]. (r 4) Witness Zarutî, [cohort commander]. (r 5) Witness Nabû-šadû'a, [...]. (r 6) Month Nisan (I), 20[th] day, eponym year of Šamaš-kašid-[ayabi] of [...]. (r 9) Witness Ulu[layu, scribe].
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB mze-e-[x x x] / LÚ.NU.GIŠ.SAR ARAD ⸢LÚ*⸣.[x x x] / EN GIŠ.SAR-MEŠ [SUM-ni] / IGI m[x x x x x] / IGI mmu-šal-[lim—x x] / IGI mI—DINGIR ⸢LÚ⸣.[x x] / IGI mNUMUN-ti-⸢i⸣ [LÚ.GAL—ki-ṣir] / IGI mdPA—⸢KUR*⸣-u-a LÚ.[x x x x] / ITI.BARAG UD 20?-[KÁM] / lim-me mdUTU—KUR—[a.a-bi] / ša URU.⸢x⸣+[x x x x] / IGI mITI.⸢KIN⸣-[a.a LÚ.A.BA]
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335310.
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/P335310/..
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/P335310/.
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