Position in chronology
SAA 14 059. Aššur-reši-išši and Remanni-Aššur Inherit Property (675-II-5) (Iraq 32 01)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(1) The partition of field (and) of house, which Tabni-Issar, Urdu-ahhešu and Remanni-Aššur divided. (cylinder seal impression) (6) The lot above the house of the crown prince, a storehouse, a workroom above the storehouse, (this is) the share of Remanni-Aššur and Aššur-reši-išši. (r 1) They have made the division and taken (their share). (r 2) Witness Riba-ahhe. (r 3) Witness Šar-ili. (r 4) Witness Metu-adur. (r 5) Witness Mannu-ki-Aššur. (r 6) Witness Aššur-bel-ili. (r 7) Witness Tabni-Issar. (r 8) Witness Atamar-Aššur. (blank space) (r 9) Month Iyyar (II), 5th day, eponym year of Nabû-ahu-iddina, treasurer.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
ḪA.LA ša A.ŠÀ ša É / ša mtab-ni—15 / ša mARAD—PAB-MEŠ-šú / ša mrém-a-ni—aš-šur / ib-ta-qu-u-ni / pu-u-ru ša ina UGU / É DUMU—MAN É.ub-sa-te / É—ŠU.2 ša ina UGU É.ub-sa-te-in-ni / ḪA.LA ša mrém-a-ni—aš-šur / ša maš-šur—SAG—i-ši / ib-ta-qu i-ta-ṣu / IGI mSU—PAB-MEŠ / IGI mIM?—DINGIR / IGI mÚŠ—a-dúr / IGI mman-nu—ki—aš-šur / IGI maš-šur—EN—DINGIR / IGI mtab-ni—15 / IGI mIGI*.LAL—aš-šur / ITI.GUD UD 05-KÁM / lim-mu mdPA—PAB—AŠ LÚv.IGI.DUB
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P451453.
Attribution
Image: Ashm 1926-0397 (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P451453). 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/P451453/.
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