Position in chronology
SAA 06 230. (no title) (675) (ADD 0601)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(Beginning destroyed) (r 1) [Witness] Nušku-il[a'i]. (r 2) [Witness] Aplu-[uṣur]. (r 3) [Witness] Nabû-šarru-[uṣur]. (r 4) [Witness] Ṭab-šar-[Adad]. (r 5) [Witness] Nabû-taklak. (r 6) [Witness] Nabû-bani. (r 7) [Witness] Ahu-du[ri]. (r 8) [Witness Hurayu]. (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[IGI] mdPA.TÚG—⸢DINGIR⸣-[a.a] / [IGI] mA—[PAB] / [IGI] mdPA—MAN—[PAB] / [IGI] mDÙG—IM—d[IM] / [IGI] mdPA—tak-⸢lak⸣ / [IGI] mdPA—ba-ni / [IGI m]PAB—⸢BÀD*⸣ / [IGI mḫu-ra-a.a]
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335520.
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/P335520/..
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/P335520/.
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