Position in chronology
SAA 14 084. Court Decision on Behalf of Zeru-[...] (653-II-20) (ADD 0096+)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(1) A judgment which Ad[ad ...] of the city of K[annu'] imposed [...]. (4) 4 shekels of [silver] belonging to Zeru-[...], at the disposal of Šam[aš-...]. (7) He shall give (and) pay [in full] the silver on the 5th day [of the month ...]. (r 1) If [he does not pay, it shall increase] by 1/2 a she[kel]. (stamp seal impression) (t.e. 3) Month Iyyar (II), 20th day, eponym year of Aššur-ila'i. (t.e. 5) Witness Apladad-kabti-ahhe. (t.e. 6) Witness Marduk-šarru-uṣur. (l.e. 1) Witness Nabû-zeru-iddina. (l.e. 2) Witness Remanni-Issar. (l.e. 3) Witness Apladad-idri.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
de-nu ša d⸢IM*⸣ [x x] / ša URU*.⸢ka⸣-[an-nu-uʾ] / e-me-du-u*-⸢ni⸣ [x x (x)] / 04 GÍN-MEŠ [KUG.UD] / ša mNUMUN*—[x x x] / ina IGI md⸢UTU*⸣—[x x x] / ina UD 05-KÁM [ša ITI.x] / KUG.UD ú-⸢šal*⸣-[lam] / i-dan šúm-⸢ma⸣ [la i-din] / a-na 1/2 ⸢GÍN⸣-[šú GAL-bi] / ITI.GUD UD 20-⸢KÁM⸣ / lim-mu maš-šur—DINGIR-a.a / IGI mA.10*—IDIM*—PAB-MEŠ / IGI mdŠÚ—MAN—PAB / IGI mdAG*—NUMUN—AŠ / IGI mrém-a-ni—15 / IGI mA.10—id-ri
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335047.
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/P335047/..
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/P335047/.
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