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SAA 14 015. Court Decision on Behalf of Ninuayu, the King’s Eunuch (*641-VII-13) (ADD 0105)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [Seal of Bel-šarru]-uṣur, ša šēpi guard. (2) [Lawsuit which] Ninuayu, [the king's eunuch], brought [agai]nst [Bel]-šarru-uṣur [on ac]count of his servants. (stamp seal impression) (5) On the new moon day of month Sivan (III) Bel-šarru-uṣur did not bring Ahu-eriba and Adad-šumu-iddina, his sureties, and did not hand them over to Ninuayu, the king's eunuch. (10) His silver was lost. (11) If he brings his sureties and hands them over to Ninuayu, Ninuayu will pay 30 shekels of silver to Bel-šarru-uṣur, the ša šēpi guard. (r 2) Or if he (Bel-šarru-uṣur) is seen with La-teggi-ana-Issar, he…
Source: Mattila, R. 2002. Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part II: Assurbanipal through Sin-šarru-iškun. SAA 14. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa14/P335057/
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Transliteration
[NA₄.KIŠIB mEN—MAN]—PAB ša—LÚv.GÌR.2 / [de-e-nu šá] mURU.NINA.KI-a.a / [LÚv.SAG—MAN ina] ⸢UGU⸣ LÚ.ARAD-MEŠ-šú / ⸢TAv⸣ m[EN]—MAN—PAB ig-ru-u-ni / ina SAG.DU DINGIR GIBIL ša ITI.SIG₄ / mEN—MAN—PAB a-na mPAB—SU / a-na m10—MU—SUM-na / ur-ki-ʾu-ú-ti-šu la na-ṣa / ina ŠU.2 mNINA.KI-a.a LÚ.SAG—MAN / la iš-kun KUG.UD-šu ZÁḪ / šum-ma ur-ki-ʾu-ti-šu na-ṣa / ina ŠU.2 mNINA.KI-a.a i-sa-kan / 30 GÍN-MEŠ…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335057.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335057). source
Translation excerpted from Mattila, R. 2002. Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part II: Assurbanipal through Sin-šarru-iškun. SAA 14. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa14/P335057/.
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