Position in chronology
SAA 06 018. (no title) (739-XII-19) (ADD 1251)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) Instead of their seals they impr[essed] their fingernails. (2) Fingernail of Sagab, fingernail of Šamšani-ilu, [fi]nger[nail of ...] from [...]ba (Break) (r 2) Witness Šu[...y]a. (r 3) Witness Ippar[šid]u. (r 4) Witness Nabû-uballiṭ, scribe, keeper of the tablet. (r 6) Month Adar (XII), 19th day, eponym year of Sin-taklak, treasurer.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
ku-um NA₄.KIŠIB-šú-nu ṣu-pur-šú-nu iš-[kun] / ṣu-pur m⸢sa*-gab* ṣu-pur*⸣ mšam*-šá-a-⸢ni*—DINGIR*⸣ / ⸢ṣu⸣-[pur x x x x x x]-ba*-a*.a* / [x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ / [x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ / ⸢IGI⸣ m[x x x x]-MAŠ / IGI m⸢šu⸣-[x x x]-⸢ia⸣ / IGI mpar-[ši]-⸢du⸣ / IGI mdPA—ú-⸢bal⸣-liṭ / LÚ.A.BA ṣa-bit ṭup-pi / ITI.ŠE UD 19-KÁM lim-mu / m30—tak-lak LÚ.IGI.UM
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P336012.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Theodore Kwasman and Simo Parpola , Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part I: Tiglath-Pileser III through Esarhaddon (State Archives of Assyria, 6), 1991. 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/P336012/..
Translation excerpted from Kwasman, T. & Parpola, S. 1991. Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part I: Tiglath-Pileser III through Esarhaddon. SAA 6. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa06/P336012/.
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