Position in chronology
SAA 06 215. Pledging Gabbu-Adad to Mannu-ki-Arbail (676-XI-10) (ADD 0167)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) If at the beginning of the month Bel-eṭir does not bring Gabbu-Adad and give him to Mannu-ki-Arbail, he shall pay in full the fine on his house. (6) Month Shebat (XI), 10th day, eponym year of Banbâ. (8) Witness Nabû-eṭiranni. (9) Witness Ahabu. (r 1) Witness Abunu. (r 2) Witness Ninuayu. (r 3) Witness Musallamu. (r 4) Witness Namû. (r 5) Witness Kabar-il.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
BE-ma ina SAG.DU* ITI / mEN—KAR-ir mgab-bu—dIM / la-a na-ṣa a-na mman-nu—ki—arba-ìl / la-a i-din* sa-ar-ti / ⸢ša* É*⸣-šú ú-šal-⸢lam⸣ / ITI.ZÍZ UD 10-KAM / lim-mu mban-ba-a / IGI mdPA—KAR-ir-a-ni / IGI mPAB—a-bu / IGI ma-bu-nu / IGI m⸢NINA*⸣.KI-a.a / IGI mmu-sa-la-me / IGI mna-mu-u / IGI mka-bar—DINGIR
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335118.
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/P335118/..
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/P335118/.
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