SAA 06 065. Bahianu Buys Land and People (692) (ADD 0440)[via saao/saa06]
Obverse | ||
o 1o 1 | (1) [Se]al of Lukimama, [seal of] Zeru-lešir, | |
o 22 | ||
cylinder seal impression | ||
o 33 | (3) [owners of the field]s and people being sold. | |
o 44 | (4) [An estate of x hectare]s of land | |
o 55 | [SUḪUR x x]-lu*-ub-la o* | (5) [adjoining ...l]ubla |
o 66 | [x x x x x x]-⸢an*⸣-ni-ia* | (6) [......a]nniya |
o 77 | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ A.QAR-MEŠ | |
o 88 | [x x x x x x] ⸢LÚv⸣.ENGAR | (8) [NN], farmer, [...] — |
o 99 | [x x x ú-piš-ma m]⸢ba⸣-ḫi-a-nu | (9) [B]ahianu [has contracted and acquired (said property) for x minas of silver] by the (mina) of the ki[ng]. |
o 1010 | ||
o 1111 | [x x x x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣+[x] | |
rest broken away | ||
Reverse | ||
rr | beginning broken away | |
r 1'1' | [x x x x x x x A.ŠÀ]-⸢MEŠ* UN*⸣-[MEŠ] | (r 1) [He shall enjoy the fiel]ds and the pe[ople for yea]rs [...]. [On the day that they pa]y [the silver], they shall redeem [the fields and the people]. |
r 2'2' | [x x x a-na MU.AN].⸢NA*⸣-MEŠ | |
r 3'3' | ||
r 4'4' | ||
r 5'5' | [ITI.x UD] 23-KAM | (r 5) Month [...], 23rd [day], eponym year of Zazaya. |
r 6'6' | ||
r 7'7' | [IGI mdx]—PAB—PAB LÚv.láḫ-ḫi-nu | (r 7) [Witness ...]-ahu-uṣur, temple steward. |
r 8'8' | (r 8) [Witness Qurd]i-Adad, team commander. | |
r 9'9' | [IGI mx x]+⸢x⸣-ši-i | (r 9) [Witness ...]šî. |
r 10'10' | (r 10) [Witness] Ili-pada. | |
r 11'11' | (r 11) [Witness Na]bû'a, goldsmith. | |
r 12'12' | (r 12) [Witness S]urarate. | |
r 13'13' | (r 13) [Witness San]gû-Issar, scribe. | |
r 14'14' | (r 14) [Witness] Nabû-remanni. |
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/P335383/.