SAA 14 086. A Fragmentary Document of Nabu-šumu-iddina (652-VII-12) (ADD 0086)

~655 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P335038

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 14

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(1) Seal of Sapiku, scribe, owner [of the ... being sold]. (Break) (r 1) [Witness ...]-ila'i. (r 2) [Witness ...š]î (r 3) [Witness Mušal]lim-Nergal. (r 4) Witness Aplaya, scribe. (r 6) Month Tishri (VII), 13th day, eponym year of Aššur-duru-uṣur, governor of Barhalzi. (r 8) (Aramaic caption:) For Nabû-šumu-iddina. Deed [of ...].

State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).

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Transliteration

NA₄.KIŠIB msa-pi-ku A.BA o* / ⸢EN⸣ [x x x x x x x] / [x x x x]+⸢x x⸣—DINGIR-a-[a] / [IGI mx]-⸢ši?⸣—i / [IGI mmu-šal]-⸢lim⸣—dU.GUR / IGI mA-ia A.BA / ITI.DU₆ UD 13*-KAM / lim-mu maš-šur—BÀD—PAB / LÚv*.GAR.KUR KUR.<bar>-ḫal-za / lnbwsmdn / dnt [...]

Scholarly note

Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335038.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335038). 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/P335038/.

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