Position in chronology
SAA 06 264. A Court Decision Concerning Property of a Prince (680-XI-27) (ADD 0164)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) A judgment which the sartinnu imposed upon Hanî. (3) Hanî owes the crown prince 300 sheep plus their fine. (5) The blood (money) of the shepherd is one man, and his fine is two talents of copper. Hanî with his people and fields are taken in lieu of the 300 sheep plus their fine and the blood (money) of the shepherd. (11) Whoever seeks him out, whether his prefect or his cohort commander or any relative of his (who) seeks him out and pays the 300 sheep along with their fine and the blood (money) for the shepherd, one man plus the two talents of copper of the fine, shall redeem Hanî. (r 6)…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
de-e-nu ša LÚ.sar-tin-nu / a-na mḫa-ni-i e-me-du-u-ni / 03 me UDU-MEŠ a-di sa-ár-ti-ši-na / ša DUMU—MAN ina IGI mḫa-ni-i / MÚD-MEŠ ša LÚ.SIPA 01-en LÚ 02 GÚ.UN URUDU-MEŠ / sa-ár-tu-šú mḫa-ni-i / a-di UN-MEŠ-šú a-di A.ŠÀ-MEŠ-šú / ku-um 03 me UDU-MEŠ a-di sa-ár-ti-ši-na / ku-<um> MÚD-MEŠ ša LÚ.SIPA-MEŠ / na-ši-na (blank) / man-nu ša ú-ba-ʾu-šú-u-ni / lu-u LÚ.GAR-nu-šú lu-u LÚ.GAL—ki-ṣir-⸢šú⸣ / lu-u…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335115.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335115). 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/P335115/.
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