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SAAB 05, 037 (P528260)
Legal, Neo-Assyrian, Assur · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | SAAB 05, 037 |
|---|---|
| ID | P528260 |
| Museum no. | VAT 09367 |
| Collection | Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Legal |
| Find spot | Assur (mod. Qalat Sherqat) |
| Coordinates | 35.4557, 43.2611 |
Transliteration (ATF)
From Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618)
Machine draft. The right-hand column is machine English from ixmon/atf-to-english (atf-en-t5base-F, 2026-10-17), generated line by line from the transliteration. It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1' | {na₄}⸢KIŠIB⸣ {[m}x]+x [x x x] | Seal of ... |
| 2' | {na₄}KIŠIB {m}[x]-la-[x x] | Seal of -la- |
| 3' | {na₄}KIŠIB {lu₂}⸢SIMUG⸣.[MEŠ] | Seal of the smith |
| 4' | gab-bu {uru}lu-[x x (x)] | all the ... plants |
| b.e. | ||
| 5' | i-⸢BALA⸣-[e ša₂] {m}{iti}AB-a.a | In the eponym year of Kanunayu. |
| 6' | 1/2 MA.NA KU₃.UD ina KI.LAL | Half a mina of silver in weight, |
| 7' | ša {lu₂}DAM.QAR | of the merchant |
| 8' | LU₂.MEŠ an-nu-te {lu₂}SIMUG.ME | These men, the smiths |
| r | ||
| 1 | TA IGI {m}da-a-da-PAB.MEŠ | from Daya-ahhe |
| 2 | ⸢it-ta⸣-aṣ-ṣu | |
| 3 | 01 GIN₂ 1/2 GIN₂ ina pa-an {m}U.U-PAB.MEŠ | 1 1/2 shekels at the disposal of Dadi-ahhe. |
| 4 | ⸢la⸣ re-he TA IGI a-he-iš | the remainder from the other side |
| 5 | u₂-ṭu-ru mam₂-ma TA man-nu | Who can take it away? |
| 6 | la i-da-bu-ub ina ur-kiš | He shall not speak in the future |
| 7 | ⸢lu {lu₂}SIMUG⸣.MEŠ an-nu-te | these smiths |
| 8 | ⸢lu⸣ mam₂-ma-nu-šu₂-nu ša de-nu | Whoever seeks a lawsuit against them |
| 9 | DUG₄.DUG₄ TA {m}da-a-da-PAB.MEŠ | litigation against Daya-ahhē, |
| 10 | ub-ta-ʾu-u-ni | he brought |
| 11 | {d}MAŠ {d}aš-šur {d}UTU {d}NIN.LIL₂ | Ninurta, Assur, Šamaš, Mullissu |
| 12 | {⸢d⸣}še-ru-u-a {d}15 ša {uru}arba-il₃ | Ištar of Arbela |
| 13 | lu EN-de-ni-šu₂ ⸢kas⸣-pu | may they be his prosecutors. |
| 14 | a-na 10-a-te a-na EN.⸢MEŠ-šu₂⸣ [GUR-ra] | shall return it tenfold to its owners. |
| 15 | ina de-ni-šu₂ ⸢DUG₄⸣.[DUG₄-ma la₃ TI] | He shall contest in his lawsuit and not succeed. |
| 16 | ⸢IGI⸣ {m}TA-{[d]}IM-a-ne₂-nu | Witness: Ištar-Adad-anenu |
| 17 | [x x x]+x x+[x x x] | ...... |
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