Position in chronology
SAA 14 413. Fragment of a Conveyance Text
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(1) [Seal of] ... (from) Arrapha, [owner of the ...]s being sold. (Break) (r 2) [Witness NN. Witness] Šarru-isse'a. (r 3) [Witness ...]nu, scribe. (r 4) [Witness NN], cohort commander. (r 5) [Witness ...]-Issar, ... (r 6) [Witness ...]... (r 7) [......] (r 8) [......]
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[NA₄.KIŠIB mx]+⸢x x⸣ URU.arrap-ḫa / [EN x x x x]-⸢MEŠ⸣ ta-da-a-ni / [x x x x x x x] ⸢x x⸣ / [IGI mx x x IGI] ⸢m⸣MAN—KI-e-a / [IGI mx x x]-nu LÚv.A.BA / [IGI mx x x x]+⸢x⸣ LÚv.GAL—ki-ṣir / [IGI mx-x—d]⸢15⸣ LÚv.ḫu-šá-ru / [IGI x x x] ⸢x x⸣-bu / [x x x x]-i / [x x x x x]-a-nu
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P336757.
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/P336757/..
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/P336757/.
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