Position in chronology
SAA 06 329. Remanni-Adad Buys Vineyards in Singara (660-IV-26) (ADD 0444)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) Seal of Adad-naṣir, (blank seal space) (2) scribe of the house of Aššur-le'i, owner of the vineyard and the man being sold. (4) A vineyard in Singara, in the house of Ištar, 1,000 vines within it; an estate of two hectares of land; a grove of oak trees; an estate of 6 hectares of land, including a meadow, a seed-corn house and a house; a garden and a pool adjoining the gardens of the vizier, Bel-mušallim, Aplaya, and Ahu-ereš; Lusumu, gardener — (13) Remanni-Adad the chariot [driver] has contracted and [bought it] for 4 minas of silver by the [mina] of Carchemish. (15) [The money] is paid…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB mdIM—PAB-ir / LÚ.A.BA šá É mAN.ŠÁR—ZU / EN GIŠ.SAR LÚ ta-da-a-ni GIŠ.SAR / ina KUR.si-in-ga-ra ina É—d15 / 01 lim GIŠ.til-lit ina ŠÀ-bi É 02 ANŠE / A.ŠÀ qab-lu šá GIŠ.al-la-an É / 06 ANŠE A.ŠÀ ú-šal-lu É ŠE.NUMUN-MEŠ / É ina ŠÀ-bi GIŠ.SAR ia-ar-ḫu / SUḪUR GIŠ.SAR šá LÚ.SUKKAL SUḪUR GIŠ.SAR / šá mEN—mu-šal-lim SUḪUR GIŠ.SAR / šá mDUMU.UŠ-a.a SUḪUR GIŠ.SAR šá mPAB—APIN-eš / mlu-su?-mu…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335385.
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/P335385/..
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/P335385/.
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