Position in chronology
SAA 14 459. Fragment of a Conveyance Text (*635) (TIM 11 32)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(1) [Seal of Is]sar-šarru-ibni, chief bow-maker [...], son of Issar-tariba, [owner of the ... being s]old. (stamp seal impressions) (Break) (r 2) No-one [shall litigate with] any[one] (r 3) Whoever in the future, [at any tim]e, contra[venes], Aššur and Šamaš shall be his prosecutors. The treaty of the king shall call him to account. (r 6) Witness Kaqqadanu. Witness Qulî. (r 7) Witness Mussezib. Witness Urdu-ahhešu. (r 8) Witness Nergal-eṭir. Witness Zar'utî. (r 9) Witness Remana-Aššur. Witness Gula-šumu-ibni. (r 10) Witness Mušallim-Marduk. (r 11) Witness Ahû'a-eriba. (e. 1) [Month ..., xth day, eponym year of B]el-lu-dari. (e. 2) [......]. Witness Urdu-Issar. (e. 3) [......]
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[NA₄.KIŠIB m]⸢15?⸣—MAN—DÙ GAL—ZADIM / [x x x] DUMU md15—ta-SU / [x x x]+⸢x⸣-u-ni / [x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x x x x x x x] / ⸢mám⸣-mu TAv ⸢mám⸣-[mu la DUG₄.DUG₄] / man-nu šá ina ur-kiš [ina ma-ti]-⸢ma DUG₄.DUG₄⸣-u-[ni o?] / aš-šur dšá-maš lu ⸢EN—de⸣-ni-šú a-de-e / šá MAN ina qa-ti-šú lu-ba-ʾu / IGI mSAG.DU-a-nu IGI mqu-li-i / IGI mMU—us-se-zib IGI mARAD—PAB-MEŠ-šú / IGI mU.GUR—KAR-ir IGI mNUMUN-u-te-i / IGI…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P224975.
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/P224975/..
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/P224975/.
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