SAA 14 343. (no title) (ADD 1151)

~655 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P335933

Translation · reference

High confidence

(Beginning destroyed) (1) [...]...[...] (2) [... Mar]duk-ahu-[...] (3) [...]...[...] (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/P335933/

Why it matters

Transliteration

[x x x]+⸢x⸣ ši ⸢ud⸣ [x x] / [x md]⸢AMAR⸣.UTU—PAB-⸢x⸣+[x x x] / [x x] ⸢ŠU?.SI?⸣ [x x]

Scholarly note

Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335933.

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/P335933/..
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/P335933/.

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