SAA 06 249. (no title) (ADD 0602)

~700 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P335521

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 6

High confidence

(Beginning destroyed) (r 1) Witness Mannu-ki-Arbail, [...]. (r 2) Witness Ilu-[..., ...]. (r 3) Witness Nuhš[aya, porter]. (r 4) Witness Issar-[..., ...] (r 5) Witness Nabû'a, [cohort commander]. (r 6) Witness Qurdi-Issar, [cohort commander]. (r 7) Witness Mamî, cohort commander. (r 8) Witness Nabû-šumu-iškun, [scribe]. (Rest destroyed)

State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).

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Transliteration

IGI mman-nu—ki—⸢arba⸣-[ìl x x x x] / IGI mDINGIR—lu-[x x x x x x x] / IGI mḪÉ.NUN-[a.a LÚ.Ì.DU₈] / IGI md15—[x x x x x x x] / IGI mdPA-u-[a LÚ.GAL—KA.KÉŠ] / IGI mqur-di—d15 LÚ.[GAL—KA.KÉŠ] / IGI mma-mì-i LÚ.GAL—KA.⸢KÉŠ⸣ / IGI mdPA—MU—GAR-un [LÚ.A.BA]

Scholarly note

Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335521.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335521). 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/P335521/.

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