SAA 06 162. (no title) (686-I) (ADD 0535)

~700 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P335469

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 6

High confidence

(1) Seal of [NN], ...[...], (3) [seal of NN], (4) [seal of NN], (5) [seal of NN], (Break) (r 1) Witness [......]. (r 2) Witness [......]. (r 3) Witness [......]. (r 4) Witness Nabû-[..., scribe]. (r 5) Month Nisan (I), [...th day, eponym year of Bel-emuranni], 20th year [of Sennacherib].

State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).

Transliteration

⸢NA₄⸣.KIŠIB m⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] / LÚ.[x x x x x x x x] / ⸢NA₄⸣.[KIŠIB mx x x x x] / ⸢NA₄*⸣.[KIŠIB mx x x x x] / ⸢NA₄*⸣.[KIŠIB mx x x x x] / ⸢IGI⸣ [mx x x x x x x] / IGI m[x x x x x x x] / IGI m[x x x x x x x] / IGI mdPA—[x x x LÚ.A.BA] / ITI.BARAG [UD x-KAM lim-me mEN—IGI.LAL-ni] / ⸢MU⸣.AN.NA ⸢20⸣-[KAM md30—PAB-MEŠ—SU]

Scholarly note

Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335469.

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/P335469/..
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/P335469/.

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