Position in chronology
SAA 06 231. (no title) (ADD 0798)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(Beginning destroyed) (1) Witness [NN], [...] (2) Witness [...]li[...]. (3) Witness Sal[amame]. (4) Witness Nušku-ila'i. (5) Witness Aplu-uṣur. (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[IGI mx x] LÚv.[x x x] / [IGI mx]-li-[x x x] / [IGI msa-la?-ma?-me] / ⸢IGI⸣ mdPA.TÚG—DINGIR-[a.a] / IGI mA—PAB LÚv.[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 P335650.
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/P335650/..
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/P335650/.
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