Position in chronology
SAA 14 408. (no title)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(Beginning destroyed or too broken for translation) (r 2) [...]-šadû'a (r 3) [...] Nabû-šumu-iškun (r 4) [...]bi' (r 5) [......] (r 6) [...]ayu (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[x x x x] da ⸢LÚv?⸣ / [x x x x]-ni / [x x x x]+⸢x⸣-MEŠ / [x x x x]-gi / [x x x x]-šú / [x x x x]-ka-a.a / [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ / [x x x x]+⸢x⸣+[x] / [x x x x]+⸢x⸣—KUR-u-a / [x x x m]⸢dPA⸣—MU—GAR / [x x x x]-bi-iʾ / [x x x x] / [x x x x]-a.a
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P336752.
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/P336752/..
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/P336752/.
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