Position in chronology
SAA 14 323. Fragment of a Witness List (ADD 0638)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(Beginning destroyed) (r 1) eponym year of [NN]. (r 2) Witness [NN]. (r 3) Witness Apla[yu]. (r 4) Witness Issar-dur[i, ...]. (r 5) Witness Aššur-išmanni, [(...)]. (r 6) Witness Aššur-zeru-[...]. (r 7) Witness Nabû-bel-[...]. (r 8) Witness Qanasus[i, ...]. (r 9) Witness Urdu-Aššur, [...]. (r 10) Witness Nabû-nammi[r, ...]. (r 11) Witness Nabû-rem[anni]. (Break) (cylinder seal impresssion)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
li-mu [mx x x x] / IGI md?[x x x] / IGI mDUMU.UŠ-[a.a] / IGI md15—⸢BÀD⸣ [x x] / IGI maš-šur—ḪAL?-a-ni [(x)] / IGI maš-šur—NUMUN-[x x x] / IGI mdPA—EN-[x x x] / IGI mqa-na-su-[si x x] / IGI mARAD—aš-šur LÚ.[x x] / IGI mdPA—nam-mir [x x] / IGI mdPA—rém?-[a-ni]
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335551.
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/P335551/..
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/P335551/.
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