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SAA 14 030. Kiṣir-Aššur Lends 16 Shekels of Silver (*635-I-11) (ADD 0001)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(1) 16 shekels of silv[er] belonging to Kiṣir-Aššur, at the disposal of Abdi-Samsi. (4) He has taken it as a loan. (5) He shall pay on the first day of the month of Tammuz (IV). (6) If not he does not pa[y]. (7) If he does not pay, it shall increase by a four[th]. (r 1) Month Nisan (I), 11[th] day, eponym year of Bel-lu-dari. (r 3) Witness Girittu. (r 4) Witness Nargî. (r 5) Witness Urdu-Ban[itu].
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
16 GÍN-MEŠ KUG.⸢UD⸣ / ša mki-ṣir—aš-šur / ina IGI mab-di—dsam-si / ina pu-u-ḫi it-ti-ši / ina UD 01-KÁM ša ITI.ŠU / KUG.UD SUM-an šum-ma la ⸢SUM⸣-[ni] / šum-ma la SUM-ni a-na 04-ut-ti-[šú] / GAL-bi ITI.BARAG UD 11-[KÁM] / lim-me mEN—lu—dà-ri / IGI mgi-rit-tú / IGI mnar-gi-i / IGI mARAD—dba-⸢ni⸣-[tú]
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P334953.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334953). 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/P334953/.
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