Position in chronology
SAA 14 061. Inner Tablet of the Preceding Text (ADD 0049)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(1) 9 minas and 15 shekels of silver, regular offering of Aššur, belonging to Aššur-reši-išši, at the disposal of Zarutî, wine master, and at the disposal of Ululayu, deputy. (6) Month Sivan (III), 16th day, eponym year of Ša-Nabû-šû. (8) The silver shall increase by a fourth. (r 1) Witness Nabû-šezibanni, eunuch, overseer of the royal crypts. (r 3) Witness Ilu-šumu-ka''in, chariot fighter of the governor. (r 5) Witness Kiṣir-Aššur. (r 6) Witness Marduk-ibni. (r 7) Witness Nabû-deni-amur. (r 8) Witness Mutakkil-Aššur, brewer.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Spotted an error? Suggest a correction — confirmed corrections feed the engine's knowledge base.
Transliteration
09 MA.NA 15* GÍN KUG.UD / gi-nu-u ša* aš-šur / ša maš-šur—SAG—iš / ina IGI mNUMUN-u-ti GAL*—GEŠTIN* / ina IGI mITI.KIN-a.a LÚv.02-u / ITI.SIG₄ UD 16-KAM / lim-mu mšá—dPA—šu-u / KUG.UD a-na 04-tú-šú GAL-bi / IGI mdPA—še-zib-a-ni / LÚv.SAG šá UGU É—LUGAL-MEŠ / IGI mDINGIR—MU—ki-in / LÚv.A—SIG ša LÚv.EN.NAM / IGI mki-ṣir—aš-šur / IGI mdŠÚ—DÙ / IGI mdPA—de-ni—a-mur / IGI mmu-tak-kil—aš-šur BAPPIR
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335001.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335001). 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/P335001/.
Related tablets
Related sources
An early example of administrative writing from Uruk. Its fragmentary numerical entries and commodity signs document record-keeping during the formative period of writing.
An early surviving historical monument that joins named rulers, a territorial dispute and religious oaths. It shows how a city-state turned victory into a lasting public claim, without establishing that this was the first recorded conflict.
Among the oldest surviving written law collections. It provides an early witness to royal justice and specified compensation, rather than a starting date for law itself.