Position in chronology
SAA 14 317. Fragment of a Witness List (ADD 0606)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(Beginning destroyed) (r 1) Witness Ninuayu, [...]. (r 2) Witness Ubru-Issar, servant of [...]. (r 3) Witness Azanayu, servant of [...]. (r 4) Witness Liphuru, from the village of [...]. (r 5) Witness Puhrati-Issar. (r 6) [Witness NN], servant of the crown [prince]. (r 7) [...]...
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
IGI mni-nu-a.a LÚv.[x x x x] / IGI mSUḪUŠ—d.INNIN LÚv.ARAD [x x x x] / IGI ma-za-na-a.a LÚv.ARAD ša [x x x x] / IGI mlip-ḫu-ru URU.ka-par*—[x x x] / IGI mpu?-uḫ-ra-ti—d.INNIN / [IGI mx x x] LÚv.ARAD ša DUMU—[MAN] / [x x x x]-nu-u-ti [x x]
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335524.
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/P335524/..
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/P335524/.
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