Position in chronology
SAA 14 101. Bani-ahu’a Lends 50 Minas of Copper Against a Pledge (*642-II-5) (ADD 0061)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(1) 50 minas of copper, capital, belonging to Bani-ahu'a, upon Taballua. (4) Takilat-Arbail is placed [as a pl]edge. (6) [If] she dies or if she flees, (by a) [snake], scorpion, water (or) oil, the responsibility is [up]on her owner. (9) On the day that he brings the copper he shall redeem the woman. (r 3) Witness Issar-šumu-iddina. (r 4) Witness Nabû-šumu-uṣur. (r 5) Witness Šulmu-Issar. (r 6) Witness Remut-Bel. (r 7) Witness Nabû-eṭiranni. (r 8) Witness Saklu. (r 9) Witness Hazianu. (e. 1) Month Iyyar (II), 5th day, [eponym year] of Nabû-dan.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
50 MA.NA URUDU-MEŠ SAG / ša mDÙ—PAB-u-a / ina UGU mtab-al-lu-u-a / MÍ.NIR.GÁL—URU.arba-ìl / [ina šá]-par-ti kam-mu-sa-at / [BE-ma] ÚŠ BE-ma ZÁḪ / [MUŠ] GÍR.TAB A-MEŠ Ì-MEŠ / ⸢UGU⸣ EN-šá / ina UD-me ša URUDU-MEŠ / ú-še-rab-an-ni / MÍ ú-še-ṣa / IGI m15—MU—AŠ / IGI mdPA—MU—PAB / IGI mDI-mu—15 / IGI mrem-ut—EN / IGI mdPA—KAR-an-ni / IGI msa-ak-lu / IGI mḫa-zi-a-nu / ITI.GUD UD 05 / [lim-mu] mdPA—KALAG-an
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335013.
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/P335013/..
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/P335013/.
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