Position in chronology
SAA 06 328. Remanni-Adad Buys a House in Nemed-Ištar (663?) (ADD 1153)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) a total of [2 sons of ...]-Adad, owner[s of] the house being sold. (cylinder seal impression) (3) A built house in its entirety with its beams and door[s] in the city of Nemed-Issar, adjoining [the king's] road, adjoining the house of Ṭabî, Ka[...], the houses of Šulmu-beli-lamur and Aplaya, and adjoining the street — (9) Remanni-Adad, chariot driver of Assurbanipal, king of Assyria, has contracted and bought it for 5 minas of silver. (12) [The mon]ey is paid completely. The house is purchased [and acquired. Any revo]cation, lawsuit, or litigation is void. (14)…
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/P335935/
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Transliteration
PAB* [02 DUMU-MEŠ x x x]—dIM / EN-[MEŠ] ⸢É*⸣ SUM-ni / É ep-šu ina gi-mir*-ti-šu / a-di GIŠ.ÙR-MEŠ-šú a-di GIŠ.IG-[MEŠ-šú] / ina URU.né-med—d15 SUḪUR KASKAL—[LUGAL] / SUḪUR É mDÙG.GA-i SUḪUR mka-⸢x⸣+[x x] / SUḪUR É mDI-mu—EN—la-mur / SUḪUR É m*A*-ia SUḪUR SILA / ú-piš-ma mrém-a-ni—dIM / LÚv.mu-kil—PA-a-te ša maš-šur—DÙ—A MAN KUR—aš-šur / ina ŠÀ-bi 05* MA.NA KUG.UD il-qi / ⸢kas⸣-pu ga-mur ta-din É…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335935.
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/P335935/..
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/P335935/.
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