Position in chronology
SAA 14 305. Fragment of a Conveyance Text (ADD 0584)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(Beginning destroyed) (1) [......] of the town Bazi (2) [......] Adad-iab, (3) [......] town Burunatu (Break) (r 2) [Witness] Garuṣu, (r 3) [witness] Sin-na'id, (r 4) [in al]l 2 (from) Uštalahi. (r 5) [Witness] Kenî, (r 6) [......] (r 7) [...] 2 (r 8) [......] (r 9) [...]... (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[x x x x] šá URU.⸢ba?-zi?⸣ / [x x x x] m10*—ia-ab / [x x x x] URU.bu-ru-na?-tú / [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ di u / [x x x x] ⸢x x x⸣ / [x] ⸢x x x⸣ / [IGI m]ga-ru-ṣu / [IGI] m30—I / ⸢PAB*⸣ 02* URU.uš?-ta-la-ḫi / [IGI] mGIN-i / [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-ba-a / [x x x x x x] 02 / [x x x x x x]-nu / [x x x x x] MÍ aš
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335506.
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/P335506/..
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/P335506/.
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