Position in chronology
SAA 14 234. Fragment of a Witness List (ADD 0097)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(Obverse illegible) (b.e. 1) [Month Iyy]ar (II), 16[th] day, [eponym year of ...]. (r 1) Witness Šamaš-[...]. (r 2) Witness Uari. (r 3) Witness Nabû-kaṣ[ir, ...]. (r 4) Witness Iqiša-Aya, [...]. (r 5) Witness Urkimê, [...]. (r 6) Witness Ibni-Aya, [...]. (r 7) Witness Ba[...]. (r 8) Witness Meša[...].
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[ITI].⸢GUD⸣ UD 16-[KÁM lim-mu* mx x x] / ina IGI md⸢UTU—x⸣+[x x] / ina IGI mú-a-⸢ri⸣ / ina IGI mdPA—ka-⸢ṣir⸣ [x x x] / ina IGI mBA-šá-a.a ⸢x⸣+[x x x] / ina IGI mur-ki-me-⸢e?⸣ [x x x x] / ina IGI mib?-na-a.[a x x x] / ina IGI mba*-⸢x⸣+[x x] / ina IGI mme-šá-[x x]
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335048.
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/P335048/..
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/P335048/.
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