Position in chronology
SAA 14 471. Manageress Lends Barley (ADD 0137)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(1) 200 barley, capit[al], belonging to the harem manageress of [...], at the disposal of Il-amara, chie[f of granaries]. (4) In the month of Ab (V), [...] (5) in Dur-Šarruken [...] (stamp seal impressions) (6) he shall give [...] (Break) (stamp seal impressions) (r 1) [[Witness]] (r 2) Witness Terik-[...]. (r 3) Witness Šarru-ila'[i, ...]. (r 4) Witness Qur[di-...]. (blank space of one line) (r 5) Month Tam[muz (IV), ...]th [day, eponym year of ...]. (r 6) Witness Nabû-ašare[d, ...]. (stamp seal impressions)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
02 me ŠE.PAD-MEŠ SAG.⸢DU⸣ / ša MÍ.šá-kín-tu ša [x x x] / ina IGI mDINGIR—a-mar LÚv.⸢GAL⸣—[kar-ma-ni] / ina ŠÀ-bi ITI.NE ⸢x⸣+[x x x] / ina URU.BÀD—MAN—GIN [x x x] / [x x] ⸢x⸣ SUM-an / <$IGI$> / IGI mte-rik—[x x] / IGI mLUGAL—⸢DINGIR*-a*⸣.[a x x x] / IGI mqur*-[di*—x x x] / ITI.⸢ŠU⸣ [UD x]-KÁM [lim-mu mx x x] / IGI mdPA—šá*-⸢rid*⸣ [x x x]
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335088.
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/P335088/..
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/P335088/.
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