Position in chronology
SAA 06 337. Remanni-Adad Buys Land (ADD 0515)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(Beginning destroyed) (seal space) (1) [An estate of x hec]tares of land (2) [...] the village of Andaranu (3) [...] a house in the town of Darigu (4) [...] an estate of 3 hectares under irrig[ation ...] — (5) Remanni-[Adad, chief chariot driv]er, [has contracted and bought] (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[É x] ⸢ANŠE⸣ A.ŠÀ.GA / [x x x] URU.ŠE—man-da-ra-ni / [x x x]-MEŠ É a-na URU.da-ri-⸢gi*⸣ / [x x x]+⸢x⸣ É 03 ANŠE É ši-[qi* x x] / [ú-piš-ma] mrém-an-ni—[dIM] / [LÚv.DIB—KUŠ.PA]-MEŠ [dan-nu]
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335452.
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/P335452/..
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/P335452/.
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