Position in chronology
SAA 14 344. Fragment of a Conveyance Text (ADD 1166)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(1) [Instead of his seal] he impressed his [fingernail]. (finger nail impressions) (Break) (r 2) shall place [x mina of si]lver (and) one mina of [gold in the la]p of Nikkal, shall tie [x] white horses at the feet Sin [of] Harran, and shall return the [mone]y tenfold to its owner. He shall contest [in] his lawsuit and [n]ot succeed. (r 9) [Witne]ss Adda-kabar. Witness Adda-yaba. (r 10) [Witness] Azarri. Witness Mati-ken. (r 11) [Witness] Se'-imme. (r 12) [Witness ...]-Se'. (r 13) [Witness ...]tia. (r 14) [Witness NN]. Witness Banaya. (r 15) [......] (r 16) [......] (r 17) [Witness NN], scribe.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[ku-um NA₄.KIŠIB-šú ṣu-pur]-šú iš-⸢kun?⸣ / [x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-šú / [x x x x x x x x x]—AŠ / [x x x x x x x x x] / [x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ / [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ [x x x x] / [x MA.NA] ⸢KUG⸣.UD 01 MA.NA KUG.[GI] / [ina bur]-⸢ki⸣ dNIN.GAL GAR-an / [x] ⸢ANŠE⸣.KUR.RA BABBAR-MEŠ ina GÌR.2 d⸢30⸣ / [ša] URU.KASKAL i-ra-kas / [kas]-⸢pu⸣ a-na 10-a-MEŠ ana EN-šú GUR-ár / [ina] ⸢de⸣-ni-šú i-da-bu-bu-ma / [o]…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335948.
Attribution
Image: BM 099095 (British Museum, London, UK) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335948). 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/P335948/.
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