Position in chronology
SAA 06 095. The Governess Forfeits a Pledged Field (ADD 0062)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) A field belonging to the governess, a field which Inbi-Aššur has been enjoying as a pledge — (3) the messenger of its owner's household has gone and forfeited the field of his lord's household. (5) In lieu of the silver due to him, they have suspended the corn and straw taxes. A field of the owner's household (7) [......] Nabû-šallim (8) [......] forfeited (9) [......] Ahu-eriba (r 1) In lieu of the straw tax which [...] suspended, a field of the owner's household (shall be taxed). (r 3) Whoever breaks the contract shall give two white horses to Aššur, and shall pay one mina of gold to…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
A.ŠÀ šá MÍ.šá-kín-te / A.ŠÀ šá mi*-ni*-bi—aš-šur a-na šá-par-ti / KÚ-u-ni LÚv*.A—KIN ša É—EN-MEŠ-šú / it-ta-lak A.ŠÀ É—EN-MEŠ-šú / ur-ta-me še-⸢eb⸣-šú ŠE*.nu-sa-ḫi ku-⸢um⸣ / KUG.UD-šú ú-sa-ni-lum A.ŠÀ É—EN-MEŠ-šú / [x x x x x x x x m]dPA—sa-lim / [x x x x x x x x]-ḫi ur*-ta-⸢me*⸣ / [x x x x x x x x] m*PAB—SU / [x x x x x] x ⸢ku*-um*⸣ ŠE.nu-sa-ḫi / šá ⸢x⸣+[x x]+⸢x⸣ ú-sa-ni-lum A.ŠÀ É—EN-MEŠ-šú /…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335014.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335014). 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/P335014/.
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