Position in chronology
SAA 14 060. Aššur-reši-išši Lends Silver, Regular Offerings of Aššur (658-III-16) (ADD 0048)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(1) Seal of Zarutî, wine master, seal of Ululayu, deputy. (3) 9 minas and 15 shekels of silver (cylinder seal impression) (4) by the mina of Carchemish, regular offering of Aššur, belonging to Aššur-reši-išši, at the disposal of Zarutî, wine master of the New Palace, and at the disposal of Ululayu, deputy. (9) Month Sivan (III), 16th day, eponym year of Ša-Nabû-šû, eunuch. (r 2) The silver shall increase by a fourth. (r 3) Witness Nabû-šezibanni, eunuch, eunuch of the king, overseer of the royal crypts. (seal impression) (r 5) Witness Ilu-šumu-ka''in, chariot fighter of the governor. Witness Kiṣir-Aššur. (r 7) Witness Marduk-ibni, cupbearer. (r.e. 8) Witness Mutakkil-Aššur, brewer. (r.e. 9) Witness Zarî, scribe.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB mNUMUN-u-ti GAL—GEŠTIN / NA₄.KIŠIB mITI.KIN-a.a LÚv.02-u / 09 MA.NA 15 GÍN KUG.UD / ina 01 MA.NA-e* ša URU.gar-ga-mis / gi-nu-u ša aš-šur / ša maš-šur—SAG—i-ši / ina IGI mNUMUN-u*-ti GAL—GEŠTIN É—GIBIL / ina IGI mITI.KIN-a.a LÚv.02-u / ITI.SIG₄ UD 16-KÁM / lim-mu mšá—dPA—šu-u LÚv.SAG / KUG.UD a-na 04-tú-šú GAL-bi / IGI mdPA—še-zib-a-ni LÚv.SAG / LÚv.SAG—MAN šá UGU É—MAN-MEŠ-ni / IGI…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335000.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335000). 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/P335000/.
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