Position in chronology
SAA 14 062. (no title) (ADD 0805)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(Beginning destroyed) (1) [shall burn his first born son at] the sacred precint of [Adad, (and) shall] re[turn the money] tenfold to its owners. He shall contest [in] his [la]wsuit and not suc[ceed]. (5) Witness Abdâ, eunuch, te[mple] supervisor. (6) Witness Ahu-eriba, pala[ce] manager. (7) Witness Marduk-šallim-ahhe, tem[ple] scribe. (8) Witness Nabû-šezibanni, overseer of the royal crypts. (9) Witness Nabû-gamil, eunuch of the mausoleum. (10) Witness Šulmu-šarri, eunuch, ditto. (11) Witness Šulmu-šarri, rab sikkāti. (12) [Wi]tness Mutakkil-Aššur, brewer. (13) Witness Urdu-Nanaya, priest of Šamaš. (14) [Witn]ess Aššur-isse'a, eunuch of [...]. (15) [Witn]ess Kunaya, eu[nuch of ...]. (16) [Witness] Ea-šarru-ibni, [...]. (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[x x x]+⸢x-MEŠ x⸣+[x x x x DUMU.UŠ-šú] / [GAL-u a-na] ⸢d*ḫa⸣-am-ri d[IM GÍBIL] / [kas-pu] ⸢a-na⸣ 10-MEŠ ana EN-MEŠ-šú ⸢GUR⸣ / [ina] ⸢de⸣-ni-šu DUG₄.DUG₄-ma la ⸢TI⸣ / IGI mab-da-a LÚ.SAG šá—IGI—É—⸢DINGIR⸣ / IGI mPAB—SU LÚ.GAL—É.⸢GAL⸣ / IGI mdŠÚ—šal-lim—PAB-MEŠ LÚ.A.BA—É—⸢DINGIR⸣ / IGI mdPA—še-zib-⸢a⸣-ni LÚ.šá—UGU—EN—LUGAL / IGI md⸢PA⸣—ga-⸢mil⸣ LÚ.SAG* šá É—KI.⸢MAḪ⸣ / IGI mDI-mu—LUGAL LÚ.SAG KI.MIN…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335654.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Raija Mattila, Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part II: Assurbanipal Through Sin-šarru-iškun (State Archives of Assyria, 14), 2002. 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/P335654/..
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/P335654/.
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