SAA 06 032. Gazilu Buys a Building Plot (707-VI-15) (ADD 0350)[via saao/saa06]
Obverse | ||
o 1o 1 | (1) [Fin]gernail [of Ubru-Allaya], owner [of the vacant lot being sold]. | |
o 22 | ||
3(+n) vertical fingernail impressions | ||
o 33 | (3) A vacant l[ot adjoining Nu]rtî, a garden, an estate of 1 hectare 6 decares of land in the town of Bit-Da[gan], adjoining the garden of Arbailayu, (the estate of) Qurdi-Issar, the canal of Adian, and (the estate) of Bel-taklak — | |
o 44 | ||
o 55 | ||
o 66 | ||
o 77 | ||
o 88 | (8) Gazilu has contracted, purchased and acquired it for 80 minas of copper. | |
o 99 | ||
o 1010 | (10) The money is paid completely. That land is purchased and acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is void. | |
o 1111 | ||
o 1212 | ||
o 1313 | (13) Whoever in the future, at any time, lodges a complaint, whether Ubru-Allaya or his sons or brothers or any relative of his, and seeks a lawsuit or litigation against Gazilu and his sons, [shall pay] 10 minas of silver (and) 5 minas of go[ld] to Ninurta residing in Cal[ah]. | |
o 1414 | ||
o 1515 | ||
o 1616 | ||
Bottom | ||
b.e. 17b.e. 17 | ||
Reverse | ||
r 1r 1 | 10 MA.NA KUG.UD 05 MA.NA ⸢KUG⸣.[GI] | |
r 22 | ||
r 33 | (r 3) He shall tie 2 white horses to the f[eet of Aššur], and shall bri[ng] 4 harb[akannu] horses to the feet of Nergal. [He shall pay 1 talent] of tin to the prefect [of his city], and shall return the money a hundredfold t[o its owner]. He shall con[test] in his lawsuit [and not succeed]. | |
r 44 | ||
r 55 | ||
r 66 | ||
r 77 | ||
r 88 | ||
r 99 | (r 9) Witness Na'di-ilu, [.... Witness ...]-ašared. | |
r 1010 | IGI mARAD—PAB-MEŠ-šú [IGI mx x x]+⸢x⸣ | (r 10) Witness Urda-ahhešu. [Witness NN]. |
r 1111 | (r 11) A total of 4 witnesses from [Maškar]it. | |
r 1212 | (r 12) Witness Nergal-ibni. Witness Adad-šumu-uṣur. | |
r 1313 | IGI m⸢pu-u⸣-[lu IGI m]⸢d*⸣šá-maš—⸢x⸣-da-a | (r 13) Witness Pu[lu]. Witness Šamaš-[...]dâ. |
r 1414 | IGI mdEN—KASKAL—[x x x] | (r 14) Witness Bel-Harran-[...]. |
r 1515 | (r 15) Witness Sangu-Issar, scribe. | |
r 1616 | (r 16) Month Elul (VI), 15th day, eponym year of Ša-Aššur-[dubbu]. | |
r 1717 | ||
Edge | ||
e. 1e. 1 | (e. 1) He has collected 4 minas of copper for his fingernail. |
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/P335294/.