SAA 14 168. Purchase of 40 Hectares of Land and Two Houses (*620) (ADD 0435)[via saao/saa14]
Obverse | ||
oo | beginning broken away | |
o 1'1' | (1) (Owner of the ...) being sold. | |
two oval stamp seal impressions, no rulings | ||
o 2'2' | (2) An estate of 40 he[ctares .......] | |
o 3'3' | (3) a w[ell ......] | |
o 4'4' | ⸢SUḪUR*⸣ [x x x x x x] | (4) adjoini[ng ...] |
o 5'5' | : KASKAL.⸢2*⸣ [x x x x x x x] | (5) ditto the road [......] |
o 6'6' | : ia*-[ar-ḫi x x x x x x x] | (6) ditto the po[nd ......] |
o 7'7' | (7) of the village of [...]. | |
o 8'8' | (8) An estate of 10 hecta[res ......] | |
o 9'9' | (9) adjoining the side road o[f ...], | |
Bottom | ||
b.e. 10'b.e. 10' | : bu-ru [x x x x x] | (10) ditto well [...], |
b.e. 11'11' | : msa-al-⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | (11) ditto Sal[...], |
b.e. 12'12' | : m10—pa-da-a [x x x x] | (12) ditto Adda-pada, [...]. |
b.e. 13'13' | (13) In all 40 hectares of field and 2 house[s ...], one garden [......] | |
Reverse | ||
r 1r 1 | ||
r 22 | mra-tu-lu ⸢m⸣[x x x x x x] | (r 2) Ratulu, [NN], |
r 33 | MÍ.bi-ta-a MÍ-šú [x x x] | (r 3) woman Bitâ, his wife [...], |
r 44 | MÍ.ia-qí-ra-⸢a⸣ [x x x x x x] | (r 4) woman Yaqirâ [...] — |
r 55 | ú-piš-ma m[x x x x x] | (r 5) [NN, (... of)] the chief eu[nuch], has contracted [and bought] from Ša[ngû-..., ...]. |
r 66 | LÚv.GAL—⸢SAG*⸣ [x x x x x x x] | |
r 77 | TAv* m⸢SANGA*⸣—[x x x x x x x] | |
r 88 | (r 8) The money [is paid] complete[ly]. Those fields, houses and [...] are purchased and acq[uired. Any revocation], lawsuit, or litigation is vo[id]. | |
r 99 | ||
r 1010 | ||
r 1111 | (r 11) [(Whoever) in the future], at any time, whether [NN] or [his] so[ns ...] | |
r 1212 | ||
r 1313 | lu ⸢DUMU⸣-[MEŠ-šú x x x x] | |
rest broken away | ||
Edge | ||
e. 1e. 1 | [IGI mx x]—⸢LUGAL⸣ IGI mITI.AB-a.a IGI mNUMUN—SANGA-su | (e. 1) [Witness ...-ša]rri. Witness Kanunayu. Witness Zer-šangusu. |
e. 22 | [IGI mx x x x x] IGI mla-qi-si LÚv.GIŠ.BAN*.TAG.GA URU.ŠE—ka-par | (e. 2) [Witness NN]. Witness Laqisi, archer of the village. |
e. 33 | [ITI.x UD x-KÁM lim]-mu msa-i-lu LÚv.GAL—MU | (e. 3) [Month ..., xth day, epon]ym year of Sa'ilu, chief cook. |
Adapted from Raija Mattila, Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part II: Assurbanipal Through Sin-šarru-iškun (State Archives of Assyria, 14), 2002. 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/P335378/.