Position in chronology
SAA 06 171. Envelope of the Preceding Text (685-II-16) (ADD 1191)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) will increase by a third. (2) Month Iyyar (II), 16th day, eponym year of Aššur-da''inanni. (r 1) Witness Abi-ul-idi. (r 2) Witness Dadi-bunu. (cylinder seal impression) (r 3) [Witne]ss Sinâ. (r 4) [Witness] Tabalayu. (r 5) [Witness] Nabû-remanni.
Source: 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/P335971/
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Transliteration
[a-na 03]-⸢si-šú⸣-nu GAL-[u] / ITI.GUD UD 16-KÁM / ⸢lim⸣-me maš-šur—KALAG-in-an-ni / ⸢IGI⸣ mAD—ul—ZU / ⸢IGI⸣ mU.U*—bu-nu / ⸢IGI⸣ msi-na-a / [IGI] mta-bal-a.[a] / [IGI m]dPA—rém-a-ni
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335971.
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/P335971/..
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/P335971/.
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