SAA 06 285. Fragment of a Legal Document of the Chief of Accounts (ADD 0632)

~700 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P335547

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 6

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(Beginning destroyed) (3) [...... in] the year [when one shekel of silver] bought si[x seahs] of barley — (5) [NN], chief of accounts, [has contracted and bought it from] Nabû-iqiša [for x minas of sil]ver by the mina [of ...] (Break) (r 1) He shall burn [his first-born son in the sacred precinct of] Adad. [He shall cont]est [in his lawsuit] (and) not succeed. (r 4) [Witness NN], scribe. (r 5) [Witness ...]-taqqin, merchant. (r 6) [Witness NN], boat owner. (r 7) [Witness NN], boat owner. (r 8) [Witness NN], 'third man,' (holder) of reins. (r 9) [Witness NN], 'third man,' ditto. (r 10) [Witness NN], 'third man' [...]. (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⸣-mu* / [x x x x x x x x] bu* TAB* / [x x x x x x x ina] ⸢MU⸣.AN.NA / [ša ina 01 GÍN KUG.UD] ⸢6(bán)* ŠE*.PAD*⸣-MEŠ ⸢tal*⸣-lik*-u-ni / [ú-piš-ma TA IGI? m]⸢dAG*⸣—BA-šá / [mx x x x x] ⸢LÚv⸣.GAL—NÍG.ŠID / [ina ŠÀ x MA.NA KUG].⸢UD*⸣ ina* ma*-⸢né*⸣-[e] / [x x x x x DUMU.UŠ-šú] ⸢GAL*⸣-ú* [o] / [ina ḫa-am-ri ša] dIM GÍBIL / [ina de-ni-šú DUG₄].DUG₄ la TI / [IGI mx x x x] LÚv.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 P335547.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335547). 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/P335547/.

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