Position in chronology
SAA 06 035. Restitution of Damages to Šumma-ilani (700) (ADD 0112)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) [The thie]ves who were impaled on the house of Šumma-ilani — (3) Kidin-ili took 13 minas of silver from the thieves (and) given it to Šumma-ilani. It has been paid in full. (7) Witness Abdâ. (r 1) Witness Nabû-kašir, overseer of reeds. (r 3) Witness Arbailayu, ditto. (r 4) Witness Sa'ilu, ditto. (r 5) [Witness Š]amaš-ra'im-ketti. (r 6) [Witness ...]-eriba, cook ... (r 7) [Witness An]a-Aššur-taklak. (r 8) [Month ...], 30th day, eponym year of Metu[nu].
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[LÚv*].⸢LUL*⸣-MEŠ* ⸢ša*⸣ ina* UGU É / mšúm-ma—DINGIR-MEŠ : iz*-qa-pu*-u*-⸢ni*⸣ / 13 MA.NA KUG.UD mki-din—DINGIR / TAv* IGI LÚv*.LUL-MEŠ : it-ta-ṣa / a-na mšúm-ma—DINGIR-MEŠ it-ti-din / ⸢šal*⸣-lu*-mu* SUM-ni / IGI mab-da-a / IGI mdPA—ka-šir / LÚv.šá—UGU—qa*-<na>-a*-te / IGI marba-ìl-a.a KI.MIN / IGI mse-ʾi-lu* / [IGI md]⸢šá*⸣-maš*—ÁG—ZI / [IGI mx-x]—SU LÚv.MU ḪAL* ANŠE? / [IGI ma]-⸢na*⸣—aš-šur—tak-lak / [ITI.x] UD 30-KAM / lim-me mme-⸢tú⸣-[nu]
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335063.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335063). source
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/P335063/.
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