Position in chronology
SAA 06 322. Remanni-Adad Buys Land and [...]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(Beginning destroyed) (1) [bought them] from Kina[nni-Issar for ......]. (2) [The money] is paid [completely]. The field [and ...] are purchased and acqu[ired. Any revocation, lawsuit], or litigation is void. (5) [Whoe]ver [in the future, at any time], lodges a complaint, [breaks the contract, or com]es forward [... and seeks a law]suit [or litigation] against Rema[nni-Adad ...] (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
⸢TA⸣ IGI ⸢mGIN*-a*⸣-[ni—d15 il-qi kas-pu gam-mur] / ta-din-ni A.⸢ŠÀ⸣ [x x x šu-a-tú] / za-ár-pu laq-[qi-u tu-a-ru de-e-nu] / DUG₄.DUG₄ la-áš-[šú ina ur-kiš ina ma-te-ma] / [man-nu] ša i-za-⸢qup⸣-[an-ni i-GIL-u-ni] / [e]-⸢la⸣-a-ni [x x x x x x x] / [de]-⸢e⸣-nu ⸢DUG₄⸣.[DUG₄ x x x x] / TAv mrém-a-[ni—dIM x x x x x] / ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x 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 P336637.
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/P336637/..
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/P336637/.
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