Position in chronology
SAA 14 232. (no title) (ADD 0054)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(Beginning destroyed) (1) at the disposal of Duri-ahh[eš]u. (2) He shall pay in the month of Tebet (X). (r 1) Witness Ṭuri-Baltu. (r 2) Witness Hananu, shepherd. (r 3) Witness Yatanu. (r 4) Witness Il-idri, scribe. (r 5) [Witness ...]-na'id, keeper of the tab[let]. (r 6) [Month ...], 3rd [day, eponym year of ...].
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
ina IGI mBÀD—PAB*-⸢MEŠ*-šú*⸣ / ina ITI.AB SUM-an / IGI mṭu-ri—ba-al-tú / IGI mḫa-na-ni SIPA / IGI mia-aʾ-ta-a-nu / IGI mDINGIR—id-ri A.BA / [IGI mx]+⸢x⸣—I ṣa-bit e*-⸢gír*⸣-[te] / [ITI.x UD x]+3*-KÁM / [lim-mu mx x x x]
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335006.
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/P335006/..
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/P335006/.
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