Position in chronology
SAA 06 165. (no title) (ADD 0594)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(Beginning destroyed) (6) [He shall pl]ace [x minas of silver and] two minas of gold [in the lap of Iš]tar of Nineveh, and shall return [the money ten]fold [to] its [owners. He shall co]ntest [in his lawsuit] and not succeed. (r 6) [Witness NN], cohort commander of the queen. (r 7) [Witness Na]bû-na'id, ditto. (r 8) [Witness Ba]nunu, [ditto]. (r 9) [Witness Mann]u-ki-Issar-le'i. (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ / [x x x x x x x x x]-mis / [x x x x x x x x x] ša / [x x x x x x x x x] LUḪ / [x x x x x x x x x]-u-ni / [x MA.NA KUG.UD] 02? MA.NA KUG.GI / [ina bur-ki dIŠ].TAR ša URU.NINA / [i-šak]-kan / [kas-pu a-na 10]-MEŠ-te / [a-na EN-MEŠ]-šú GUR / [ina de-ni-šú] ⸢DUG₄⸣.DUG₄-ma là TI / [IGI mx x x x] GAL—ki-ṣir ša MÍ.KUR / [IGI md]⸢PA⸣—I :. / [IGI mba]-nu-nu [:.] / [IGI mman]-⸢nu⸣—ki—d15—ZU
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335515.
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/P335515/..
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/P335515/.
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