Position in chronology
SAA 14 121. Šep-Issar Lends 11 Shekels of Silver (*630-XI) (ADD 0082)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(1) [Sea]l of Kulu'-[Issar. Seal of] Dayyan-Kurba[il from] the town of Illi[...]. (4) [11] shekels of silver [of Ištar of Nineveh belonging to] Šep-Issar, [...] (Break) (r 1) [Witness] Urdu-Nabû. Witness Šep-Issar, [...]. (r 2) [Witness] Issar-metu-uballiṭ. Witness Kaššud[u]. (r 3) [Witness] Nargî. Witness Gabbu-ilani.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[NA₄].⸢KIŠIB⸣ mku-lu-uʾ—d[15] / [NA₄.KIŠIB m]da-an—URU.kur-ba-[ìl] / [TAv] ŠÀ URU.il-li-[x x] / [11] GÍN-MEŠ KUG.UD [ša d15 šá NINA.KI] / [ša] ⸢mGÌR*—15*⸣ [x x x] / [IGI m]⸢ARAD*—d*PA* IGI m*GÌR*.2*—15*⸣ / [IGI m]15—ÚŠ-tú—bal-liṭ IGI mka-šu-⸢du⸣ / [IGI m]nar-gi-i IGI mgab-bu—DINGIR-MEŠ
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335034.
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/P335034/..
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/P335034/.
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