Position in chronology
SAA 14 026. Luqu Lends Ten Shekels of Silver (*645-VI-5) (ADD 0004)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(1) 10 shekels of silver belonging to Luqu, at the disposal of Sukki-Aya and at the disposal of Remut-ilani. (5) They took it as a loan. The silver shall increase by a fourth. (7) Month Elul (VI), 5th day, eponym year of Šamaš-da''inanni. (r 1) Witness Mannu-ki-Aššur, ša šēpi guard. (r 2) Witness Qurdi-Dadî, baker. (r 3) Witness Kur-ila'i, merchant. (r 4) [Witness] Takilati. (r 5) Witness Uqur-ahhe. (r 6) Witness Nargî. (r 7) Witness Mušallim-Adad, scribe.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
10 GÍN-MEŠ KUG.UD / ša mlu-u-qu / ina IGI mTE-a.a / ina IGI mrém-ut—⸢DINGIR⸣-MEŠ-ni / ina pu-u-ḫi it-ta-ṣu / KUG.UD a-na 04-ut-ti-šú GAL-bi / ITI.KIN UD 05-KÁM / lim-mu mdUTU—KALAG-in-a-ni / IGI mman-nu—ki—aš-šur šá—GÌR.2 / IGI mqur-di—U.U LÚv.NINDA / IGI mkur—DINGIR-a.a DAM.QAR / [IGI] mta-ki-la-a-ti / IGI muq-qur—PAB-MEŠ / IGI mnàr-gi-i / IGI mmu-DI—10 A.BA
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P334956.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334956). source
Translation excerpted from Mattila, R. 2002. Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part II: Assurbanipal through Sin-šarru-iškun. SAA 14. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa14/P334956/.
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