Position in chronology
SAA 14 176. Manageress Buys […] (ADD 0498)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(Beginning destroyed) (1) (Whoever breaks the contract) [whether th]ese [men], or [their sons, or] their [grandson]s, or [their] neph[ews, or] their [re]lative, or [..., or their] cohort commanders, and see[ks a lawsuit or litigation] against the harem manageress, (5) [shall eat one mina of plucked wool], shall drink one 'litre' of tanner's paste, [shall tie] 2 [white] hor[ses at the feet of Aššur and bring] 4 harbakannu horses at the [feet of Nergal, shall set up] 2 reeds without nodes [at the gate of Aššur], shall give one talent of tin to the gover[nor of his city, shall ......] one talent…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[lu-u LÚ-MEŠ an]-nu-te lu-u [DUMU-MEŠ-šú-nu] / [lu-u DUMU—DUMU]-⸢MEŠ*⸣-šú-nu lu-u DUMU*—⸢PAB*⸣-[MEŠ-šú-nu] / [lu-u] ⸢qur⸣-ub-šú-nu lu-u [x x x x x x] / [lu-u] LÚ.GAL—ki-ṣir-MEŠ-[šú-nu ša de-nu DUG₄.DUG₄] / TAv MÍ.šá-kín-tú ub-ta-⸢ʾu⸣-[u-ni 01 MA.NA SÍG.ger-du KÚ] / BÁN-su kur-ru NAG 02 ⸢ANŠE⸣.[KUR.RA-MEŠ ina GÌR.2 ša daš-šur i-rak-kas] / 04 ANŠE.ḫar-ba-kan-ni ina KI.[TA dMAŠ.MAŠ ú-še-rab] / 02…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335436.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335436). 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/P335436/.
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