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SAA 14 094. Amurri Lends One Mina of Silver (*646-IV-9) (ADD 0025)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(1) Seal of Zabinu, horse trainer of the rab mūgi. (3) One mina of silver [b]y (the mina) of Carchemish, (stamp seal impressions) (5) [belo]nging to Amurrî, [at the dispo]sal of Zabinu. (7) [The silver will incre]ase [by a fourth]. (8) [Month Tammuz (IV), 9th day, eponym year of Nabû-šar-ahhešu]. (r 1) [Witness Nusku-ila'i, eu]nuch. (r 2) [Witness Issar-duri]. (r 3) [Witness Indû], from Commagene. (r 4) [Witness A]hi-lî, [witness] Našhu-ayali, viziers of the entrance. (r 7) [Witn]ess Harranayu. (r 8) [Witn]ess Nabû-rehtu-uṣur, scribe. (r 9) (Aramaic caption:) Contract of the silver which is at the disposal of Zabinu.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
⸢NA₄⸣.KIŠIB mza-bi-nu / LÚv.GIŠ.GIGIR GAL—mu-gi / 01 MA.NA KUG.UD / ⸢ina⸣ ša URU.gúr-ga-mis / ⸢ša⸣ mIM.04-i / [ina] ⸢IGI m⸣za-bi-nu / [KUG.UD a-na 04-tú-šú GAL]-bi / [ITI.ŠU UD 09-KÁM] / [lim-mu mdPA—MAN—PAB-MEŠ-šú] / [IGI mdPA.TÚG—DINGIR-a.a LÚv].⸢SAG⸣ / [IGI m15—BÀD] / [IGI min-du-u] TAv URU.ku-muḫ / [IGI m]⸢PAB⸣—li-i / [IGI m]dna-áš-ḫu—a.a-li / [LÚv].⸢SUKKAL⸣-MEŠ ša né-ri-bi / ⸢IGI⸣ mKASKAL-a.a / ⸢IGI⸣ mdPA—re-eḫ-tú—PAB A.BA / ʾgrt kspʾ / zy ʾl zbn
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text X140094.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Raija Mattila, Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part II: Assurbanipal Through Sin-šarru-iškun (State Archives of Assyria, 14), 2002. 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/X140094/..
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/X140094/.
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