Position in chronology
SAA 14 438. Inner Tablet of the Preceding Text (TIM 11 18)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(1) One mina of silver by (the mina) of the king Ken-ahhe has given to Nabû-iqbi, and to Nurtî, and redeemed Nabû-rehtu-uṣur, his brother's son, and cleared him (from claim). (r 1) Month Tishri (VII), 21st day, eponym year of Šamaš-kašid-ayabi. (r 3) Witness Hašanu. (r 4) Witness Labaṭî. (r 5) Witness Daddî. (r.e. 6) Witness Ṭab-Daddi. (r.e. 7) [Witne]ss Dur-Adad. (r.e. 8) Witness Dugul-a(na)-ili. (r.e. 9) Witness Ululayu.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
01 MA.NA KUG.UD ina ša MAN / mGIN—PAB-MEŠ / a-na mdAG—iq-bi / a-na mnu-úr-ti-i / ⸢it⸣-ti-din mdPA—re-eḫ-tú—PAB / DUMU PAB-šú ip-ta-ṭar / ú-zak-ki / ITI.DU₆ UD 21 / lim-me mdUTU—KUR—a.a-bi / IGI mḫa-šá-na / IGI mla-ba-ṭí-i / IGI mdi-di-i / IGI mDÙG.GA—U.U / ⸢IGI⸣ mBÀD—10 / IGI mdu-gul—a—DINGIR / IGI mITI.KIN-a.a
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P224960.
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/P224960/..
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/P224960/.
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