Position in chronology
SAA 06 133. Court Decision Concerning a Theft (694-I-24) (Iraq 32 02)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) Kannu, Kaskayu, Babiri, Takali and Nanna, a total of five men, committed a theft in the house of Tâ. They were caught red-handed with goods worth 14 minas 30 shekels of silver. (5) They came forward for judgment before Issaran-zeru-ibni, a royal bodyguard, Issar-na'id, a royal bodyguard, and Girittu, the deputy (governor), who told them: "Go off to Nineveh for judgment before the vizier and the sartinnu." (9) They did not consent to this but said: "We are guilty." (10) 44 minas 10 shekels of silver were imposed as the fine, and they have restituted to Tâ 14 minas of silver, the capital…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
mkan-ni mkas-ka-a.a mba-bi-ri [o] / mta-ka-li mna-an-na PAB 05 LÚ.ERIM-MEŠ / sa-ar-tú ina É mta-a e-tap-šú / a-nu-tú ša 14 MA.NA 30 GÍN KUG.UD qa—ṣi-bit-te / ina ŠU.2-šú-nu i-ṣab-tu ina IGI mAN.GAL—NUMUN—DÙ qur-ZAG / ina IGI md15—I LÚv.qur-ZAG ina IGI mgír-te 02-e / a-na de-e-ni iq-ṭar-bu iq-ṭí-bu-ni-šú-nu / ⸢ma⸣-a ina NINA.KI ina IGI LÚv.SUKKAL LÚv.sar-tin-ni / a-na de-e-ni li-kal-ka la i-ma-gúr…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P336188.
Attribution
Image: BM 123360 (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P336188). 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/P336188/.
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