Position in chronology
SAA 14 055. Fragment of a Kakkullanu Witness List (ADD 0568)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(Beginning destroyed) (r 1) [...... no]t s[ucceed]. (r 2) [Witness] Kanunayu, [...]. (r 3) [Witness] Sin-uballi[ṭ, ...]. (r 4) [Witne]ss Ribati-il, [...]. (r 5) Witness Nabû-aplu-iddina, [...]. (r 6) Witness Nabû-na'id, royal body[guard]. (r 7) Witness Bel-ibni, [...]. (r 8) [Witness] Nabû-šumu-[...], [...]. (r 9) [Witness A]bd[i-...], [...]. (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[x x x x x NU] ⸢TI*⸣ / [IGI m]ITI.AB-a.a LÚv.⸢x⸣+[x x x x] / [IGI] m30—ú-bal-⸢liṭ⸣ [x x x x] / ⸢IGI⸣ mSU-ti—DINGIR [x x x x] / IGI mdPA—A—AŠ ⸢LÚv⸣.[x x x x] / IGI mdPA—I LÚv.⸢qur⸣-[ZAG] / IGI mEN—DÙ [x x x x x] / [IGI] mdPA—MU-[x x x x x] / [IGI m]⸢ab?-di⸣-[x x x x]
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335494.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Raija Mattila, Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part II: Assurbanipal Through Sin-šarru-iškun (State Archives of Assyria, 14), 2002. Lemmatised by Melanie Groß, 2010–2011, as part of the FWF-funded research project "Royal Institutional Households in First Millennium BC Mesopotamia" (S 10802-G18) directed by Heather D. Baker at the University of Vienna. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P335494/..
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/P335494/.
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