Position in chronology
SAA 14 099. Taqunu Lends Barley Belonging to the Crown Prince (ADD 0130)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(stamp seal impression) (1) 3 homer(s of barley), at the disposal of [Ia-isi] and 2 homers and 8 seahs, at the disposal of [Gabbu-ilani], a total of 5 homers and 8 seahs of bar[ley] belonging to the crown prince (under the control) of Taquni, [deputy], at the disposal of Ya-isi and at the the disposal of Gabbu-ilani from Handuate. (9) The barley [shall increase x seahs] per homer. (10) Harvesters. (Aramaic caption: Barley [belonging to] the crown [prince, at the disposal of Yaisi] and [at the disposal of Gabbu-ilani from] H[adduwah].)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
03 ANŠE ina IGI m[ía-a.a-si] / 02 ANŠE 8(bán)* ina IGI [mgab-bu—DINGIR-MEŠ] / PAB 05 ANŠE 8(bán)* ŠE.[PAD-MEŠ] / ša DUMU—MAN ša [ŠU.2] / mta-qu-u-ni ⸢LÚ⸣.[02-u] / ina IGI mía-a.a-si / ina IGI mgab-bu—DINGIR-MEŠ / URU.ḫa-an-du-a-⸢ta⸣-[a.a] / ŠE.PAD-MEŠ a-na 01 ANŠE [tar-GAL-bi] / [o*] ⸢LÚv⸣.ŠE.KIN.KUD-MEŠ
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335081.
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/P335081/..
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/P335081/.
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