Position in chronology
SAA 14 226. (no title) (ADD 0107)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) to [......] (2) to [......] (3) I[f ......] (seal space) (4) 4 minas of [silver] (5) to Il-[...] (6) Month Tishri (VII), 10[th] day, [eponym year of ...]. (r 1) Witness [NN]. (r 2) Witness [NN]. (unused seal space) (r 3) Witness [NN]. (Rest destroyed)
Source: 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/P335058/
Why it matters
Transliteration
a-na [x x x x x x x] / a-na [x x x x x x x] / šum-[ma x x x x x x] / 04 MA.NA KUG.[UD] / a-na mDINGIR-[x x x x x] / ITI.DUL UD-10-[x lim-mu x x x] / IGI mDINGIR-[x x x] / IGI mDINGIR-[x x x] / IGI m[x x x]
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335058.
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/P335058/..
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/P335058/.
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