Position in chronology
SAA 06 084. The Governess Loans Sheep (694-XII-10) (ADD 0120)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) 11 ewes plus their rams, belonging to the governess, at the disposal of Nabû-nadin-ahi. (5) Witness Ilu-da''inanni, (6) Witness Nabû-ahu-uṣur, (7) Witness Mannu-ki-Issar, (r 1) Witness La-tubašanni-ilu, scri[be]. (r 2) Month Adar (XII), 10th day, eponym year of Ilu-isse'a.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
11* UDU.U₈-MEŠ / ⸢a⸣-di UDU.NÍTA-MEŠ-ši-na / ša MÍ.šá-ki-in-tú / ina IGI mdPA—AŠ—PAB / IGI mDINGIR—ú*-KALAG-an-ni / IGI mdPA—PAB—PAB / IGI mman-nu—ki-o*—15 / IGI mla—TÉŠ-ni—DINGIR LÚv.A.⸢BA⸣ / ITI.ŠE UD 10-KÁM / lim-me mDINGIR—KI-e-a
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335071.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Theodore Kwasman and Simo Parpola , Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part I: Tiglath-Pileser III through Esarhaddon (State Archives of Assyria, 6), 1991. 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/P335071/..
Translation excerpted from Kwasman, T. & Parpola, S. 1991. Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part I: Tiglath-Pileser III through Esarhaddon. SAA 6. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa06/P335071/.
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