Position in chronology
SAA 14 440. Bedroom and Inner Courtyard Pledged (655-II-19) (TIM 11 17)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) S[eal of ...]-balliṭ (2) [......] (3) [belonging to ...h]iâ (space for seal impressions) (4) [at the disposal of ...]-balliṭ. (5) [Inste]ad of interest on the silver the bedr[oom] and the inner [court of h]is [house] in Nineveh are placed [as] a pledge. (r 2) He shall live in it for 5 years. (r 3) (If) he gives back the silver, he will redeem the house. (r 4) Month [Iy]yar (II), 19(th) day, eponym year of Auianu. (r 6) Witness Qurqusia. (r 7) Witness Urdu-Mul[li]ssi. (r.e. 8) Witness Sinqi-Issar. (r.e. 9) Witness Bar[i]ku. (e. 1) [Witness] Nabû-eriba. (e. 2) [Witness Ur]du-Nabû. (e. 3) [Witness] Urdu-Issar.
Source: 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/P224959/
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Transliteration
NA₄.⸢KIŠIB⸣ [mx x x—ú]-TI / ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ / [ša mx x x]-⸢ḫi?⸣-ia-a / [ina IGI mx x x]—ú-TI / [ku]-⸢um⸣ GAL-e ša KUG.UD / [É]—⸢KI⸣.NÁ / [x x]+⸢x⸣ É-a-ni / [ša É]-⸢šú⸣ ina NINA / [ina] šá-par-te šak-ni / ⸢05?⸣ MU.AN.NA-MEŠ ina ŠÀ-bi / uš-šab KUG.UD SUM-an / É ú-še-ṣa ITI.⸢GUD?⸣ UD 19 / lim-mu ma-ú-ia-⸢a⸣-nu / IGI mqur-qu-si-ia / IGI mARAD—dNIN.⸢LÍL⸣ / IGI msi-niq—15 / IGI mba-⸢ri⸣-ku / [IGI md]PA—SU / [IGI m]⸢ARAD⸣—dPA / [IGI] mARAD—15
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P224959.
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/P224959/..
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/P224959/.
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