Position in chronology
SAA 06 303. (no title) (670?-VIII-1) (ADD 0637)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(Beginning destroyed) (r 1) Witness Si[......], (r 2) a total of 2 witnesses [from ...]. (r 3) Witness Silim-ili, [...]. (r 4) Witness Nabû-ahhe-riba, [scribe]. (r 5) Month Marchesvan (VIII), 1st day, eponym ye[ar of Šulmu-beli-lašme], governor of De[r].
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[IGI] msi-⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] / PAB 02 IGI-MEŠ [x x x x x] / IGI msi-lim—DINGIR ⸢LÚ⸣.[x x x x] / IGI mdPA—PAB-MEŠ—SU [x x x x] / ⸢ITI⸣.APIN UD 01-KÁM lim-⸢mu⸣ [mx x x x x] / [LÚ].⸢GAR*⸣.[KUR] URU.BÀD—[x x x]
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335550.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335550). 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/P335550/.
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