Position in chronology
SAA 06 168. (no title) (686) (ADD 0482)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) [Seal of] Adda-nagi, [owner of the ...] being sold. (stamp seal impressions) (Break) (r 4) Month [..., xth day, eponym year of Bel-em]uranni, [commander]-in-chief.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[NA₄.KIŠIB m]⸢a*⸣-da*—na-a-⸢gi*⸣ / [EN x x x] ta-da-ni / [IGI mx x x x] ⸢ḫi? x⸣ / [IGI mx x x x]-e / [IGI mx x x x]-u-a / [ITI.x UD x-KÁM] / [lim-mu mEN—IGI].LAL-an-ni / [LÚ.tur]-⸢ta⸣-a-nu
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335421.
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/P335421/..
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/P335421/.
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