Position in chronology
SAA 14 007. Milki-nuri Buys [...] (ADD 0494)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(Beginning destroyed) (r 1) and seeks [a la]wsuit or liti[gation aga]inst Milki-nuri and [his] son[s], (r 4) shall return the money tenfold to its owners. He shall contest in his lawsuit and not succeed. (r 7) [Wi]tness Lit-il, cohort commander of the chariot fighters of the queen. (r 9) [Witness ...]e'i, 'third man' of [...]. (r 10) [Witness Qur]di-Nergal, commande[r of (mounted) sc]outs. (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[šá] ⸢de⸣-e-nu ⸢DUG₄⸣.[DUG₄] / ⸢TAv⸣ mmil-ki—ZÁLAG DUMU-⸢MEŠ⸣-[šú] / ⸢ub⸣-ta-ʾu-ú-⸢ni⸣ / kas-pu a-na 10-MEŠ-te a-na ⸢EN-MEŠ-šú⸣ / ú-ta-ra ina de-ni-šú / DUG₄.DUG₄-ma la i-laq-qi / ⸢IGI⸣ mZU—DINGIR LÚ.GAL—ki-ṣir / ša LÚv.A—SIG ša MÍ—É.GAL / [IGI mx]+⸢x⸣-ʾe-e-i LÚ.03.U₅-šú ša [x x] / [IGI mqur]-di*—U.GUR* LÚv.GAL—kal-⸢lap⸣ [x x]
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335432.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) ? — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335432). source
Translation excerpted from Mattila, R. 2002. Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part II: Assurbanipal through Sin-šarru-iškun. SAA 14. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa14/P335432/.
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