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SAA 06 094. The Governess of the Central City Harem [Releases] 31 People (ADD 1163)
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High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) The woman Beltu-uṣur, [NN, NN], (2) Nabû-deni-[epuš, NN, NN], (3) Ahi-immê, [NN, NN], (4) Tamlut[i, NN, NN], (5) Issar-tariba, [NN, NN], (6) Nabû-ušabši, [NN, NN], (7) Erba-ilani, [NN, NN], (8) Nabû-ušallim, Mart[u', NN], (9) Salam-Adad, [NN, NN], (b.e. 10) Hannî, [......]; (b.e. 11) an estate of 40 (hectares of) land in the city [...]; (r 1) in all 31 persons, barley [...], an estate of 40 (hectares of) land in the cit[y ...] — (r 2) [NN has released] (said property) [from NN], governess of the cent[ral city] (harem), for 17 and a half minas of si[lver]. (Rest destroyed)
Source: 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/P335945/
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Transliteration
MÍ*.GAŠAN*—PAB MÍ*.[x x x x x x x] / mdPA—de-ni—[DÙ-uš mx x x x] / mPAB—im-me-⸢e⸣ [mx x x x x x] / mtam-lu*-u—⸢ti*⸣ [mx x x x x x] / md15—ta-SU [mx x x x x x x] / mdPA—GÁL-ši [mx x x x x x x] / mTU—DINGIR-MEŠ LÚv.[x x x x x x] / mdPA—GI mmar-tú-[x mx x x x x] / msa-la-ma—dIM [mx x x x x x] / mḫa-⸢an*⸣-ni-⸢i*⸣ ša* [x x x x x] / É 40 A.ŠÀ.GA ina ŠÀ ⸢URU*⸣.[x x x x x] / PAB 31 ⸢UN*⸣-MEŠ ŠE.BAR [x x…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335945.
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/P335945/..
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/P335945/.
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