Position in chronology
SAA 14 439. Delivery Contract for a Donkey Mare (656-VI-1) (TIM 11 19)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(1) On the 1st day of the month Tishri (VII), Libluṭ, son of Urdu-Issar, shall bring the donkey mare with her young, [and deliver them in the cent]re of Nineveh [to] Adad-bel. (6) If he does not deliver (them) he will give [to] Adad-bel [a male donk]ey with its cart. (r 3) [Month] Elul (VI), 1st day, eponym year of Milki-ram. (r 5) Witness Sasî. (r.e. 6) Witness Ṣil-Mullissi. (r.e. 7) Witness Ilu-iṣṣur.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
ina UD 01-KÁM šá ITI.DUL / MÍ.ANŠE a-du DUMU-e-šá / mlib-luṭ DUMU mARAD—15 ú-ba-la / [ina] ⸢qab⸣-si URU.NINA / [a-na] m10—EN / [SUM-an] šum-ma la i-din / [01 ANŠE].NÍTA a-du tal-lak-tú-šú / [a-na] m10—EN i-dan / ITI.KIN UD 01-KÁM / lim-mu mmil-ki—ra-mu / IGI msa-si-i / IGI mṣil—dNIN.LÍL / IGI mDINGIR—PAB
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P224962.
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/P224962/..
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/P224962/.
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