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SAA 06 133. Court Decision Concerning a Theft (694-I-24) (Iraq 32 02)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Kannu, Kaskayu, Babiri, Takali and Nanna, a total of five men, committed a theft in the house of Tâ. They were caught red-handed with goods worth 14 minas 30 shekels of silver. (5) They came forward for judgment before Issaran-zeru-ibni, a royal bodyguard, Issar-na'id, a royal bodyguard, and Girittu, the deputy (governor), who told them: "Go off to Nineveh for judgment before the vizier and the sartinnu." (9) They did not consent to this but said: "We are guilty." (10) 44 minas 10 shekels of silver were imposed as the fine, and they have restituted to Tâ 14 minas of silver, the capital…
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/P336188/
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Transliteration
mkan-ni mkas-ka-a.a mba-bi-ri [o] / mta-ka-li mna-an-na PAB 05 LÚ.ERIM-MEŠ / sa-ar-tú ina É mta-a e-tap-šú / a-nu-tú ša 14 MA.NA 30 GÍN KUG.UD qa—ṣi-bit-te / ina ŠU.2-šú-nu i-ṣab-tu ina IGI mAN.GAL—NUMUN—DÙ qur-ZAG / ina IGI md15—I LÚv.qur-ZAG ina IGI mgír-te 02-e / a-na de-e-ni iq-ṭar-bu iq-ṭí-bu-ni-šú-nu / ⸢ma⸣-a ina NINA.KI ina IGI LÚv.SUKKAL LÚv.sar-tin-ni / a-na de-e-ni li-kal-ka la i-ma-gúr…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P336188.
Attribution
Image: BM 123360 (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P336188). source
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/P336188/.
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