Read Chronology Themes Tablets Engine About

Read
Chronology
Themes
Tablets
Engine
About

Sumerian · Book

Reading the tablets…

A curated narrative reconstruction of humanity's first great civilization, sourced from the tablets themselves. Open scholarship, beautifully accessible.

The site

About the project The engine Dossiers FAQ Methodology Sources & licensing Provenance & ethics Contact & support

Legal

Independent scholarship · No academic affiliation · No institutional funding · Tablet imagery attributed per item via CDLI, ETCSL, ORACC, Wikimedia, and public museum collections.

Home
All tablets

The corpus

All tablets.

Every tablet in the corpus — sortable by date, title or period; filterable by theme and period. Use the controls below or change the URL parameters directly.

Sort

Oldest first Newest first Title (A–Z)By period

Theme

Religion & Myth Law Economy Astronomy & Mathematics Daily Life Writing & Literature

Period

Ubaid Uruk Period Early Dynastic Akkadian Empire Ur III · Neo-Sumerian Old Babylonian Old Assyrian Middle Babylonian Middle Assyrian Neo-Assyrian Neo-Babylonian Achaemenid Persian

Source

Editorial Sumerian literature Sumerian royal Assyrian royal Assyrian archives

3,777 of 102,257 tablets · 5 filters activeClear filters

3751–3777 of 3777

Page 76 / 76

~655 BCE

·Neo-Assyrian

SAA 14

SAA 14 439. Delivery Contract for a Donkey Mare (656-VI-1) (TIM 11 19)

(1) On the 1st day of the month Tishri (VII), Libluṭ, son of Urdu-Issar, shall bring the donkey mare with her young, [and deliver them in the cent]re of Nineveh [to] Adad-bel. (6) If he does not deliver (them) he will give [to] Adad-bel [a male donk]ey with its cart. (r 3) [Month] Elul (VI), 1st day, eponym year of Milki-ram. (r 5) Witness Sasî. (r.e. 6) Witness Ṣil-Mullissi. (r.e. 7) Witness Ilu-iṣṣur.

Law

SAA 14 439. Delivery Contract for a Donkey Mare (656-VI-1) (TIM 11 19)

SAA 14 440. Bedroom and Inner Courtyard Pledged (655-II-19) (TIM 11 17)

SAA 14 441. Pan-Issar-lamur, Eunuch, Lends One Mina of Silver (*634-II-22) (TIM 11 16)

SAA 14 442. Puti-Athiš Buys a Boy As a Son for Himself (*634) (TIM 11 15)

SAA 14 443. Puṭu-Eši Buys a Woman as a Wife (TIM 11 14)

SAA 14 444. Šumma-taṣip Lends Barley (TIM 11 27)

SAA 14 445. Silver Loan (*621-I-21) (TIM 11 25)

SAA 14 446. Court Order Concerning a Silver Loan (*612-VII) (TIM 11 22)

SAA 14 447. (no title) (TIM 11 20)

SAA 14 448. Court Order Concerning Copper Vessels (TIM 11 21)

SAA 14 449. Fragmentary Court Order (TIM 11 23)

SAA 14 450. Court Decision Concerning Adoption (TIM 11 24)

SAA 14 451. (no title) (TIM 11 26)

SAA 14 452. (no title) (TIM 11 28)

SAA 14 453. (no title) (TIM 11 30a)

SAA 14 454. (no title) (TIM 11 30c)

SAA 14 455. (no title) (TIM 11 30d)

SAA 14 456. (no title) (TIM 11 30e)

SAA 14 457. Bel-Harran-duri, Chariot Driver of the C[rown Prince], Buys Land (TIM 11 31)

SAA 14 458. Barruqu Lends Grain (TIM 11 35)

SAA 14 459. Fragment of a Conveyance Text (*635) (TIM 11 32)

SAA 14 460. Land Lease (TIM 11 33)

SAA 14 461. Fragment of a Conveyance Text (TIM 11 34)

SAA 14 468. Urdu-Inurta Buys 11 Hectares of Land in Huli (ADD 1185)

SAA 14 475. Urdu Buys People (ADD 0259)

SAA 14 476. A Court Decision on Behalf of Silim-Aššur

SAA 14 478. Fragment of a Witness List (ADD 1201)