SAA 06 327. Fragment of a Remanni-Adad Witness List (663-X-28) (ADD 0611)

~700 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P335528

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 6

High confidence

(Beginning destroyed) (r 1) [Witness Barr]uq[u, chariot driver]. (r 2) [Witness Aššur-il]a'i, [cohort commander of the royal bodyguard]. (r 3) [Witness Sa]kkannu, [chariot driver]. (r 4) [Witness Marduk-šar]ru-uṣur, son of [Gabbê]. (r 5) [Witness Nergal]-šarru-uṣur, 'third [man].' (r 6) [Witness] Zababa-eriba, ['third man].' (r 7) [Witness] Kanunayu. Witness [NN]. (r 8) [Mon]th Tebet (X), 28th day, epo[nym year of Bel-na'id], governor of C[ommagene].

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

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Transliteration

[IGI mbar]-⸢ruq-qu⸣ [LÚ.DIB—KUŠ.PA-MEŠ] / [IGI maš-šur]—⸢DINGIR⸣-a.a [LÚv.GAL—ki-ṣir qur-ZAG] / [IGI msa]-⸢ak⸣-kan ⸢LÚv⸣.[DIB—KUŠ.PA-MEŠ] / [IGI mdŠÚ]—⸢MAN⸣—PAB A m[gab-bé-e] / [IGI mdU.GUR]—MAN—PAB LÚv.3-[šú] / [IGI m]⸢d⸣za-ba₄-ba₄—SU [LÚv.3-šú] / [IGI] ⸢m⸣ITI.AB-a.a IGI m[x x x x x] / ⸢ITI⸣.AB UD 28-KÁM lim-[mu mEN—na-aʾ-di] / ⸢LÚv⸣.GAR.KUR URU.⸢ku?⸣-[mu-ḫi]

Scholarly note

Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335528.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335528). 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/P335528/.

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