SAA 14 121. Šep-Issar Lends 11 Shekels of Silver (*630-XI) (ADD 0082)

~655 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P335034

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 14

High confidence

(1) [Sea]l of Kulu'-[Issar. Seal of] Dayyan-Kurba[il from] the town of Illi[...]. (4) [11] shekels of silver [of Ištar of Nineveh belonging to] Šep-Issar, [...] (Break) (r 1) [Witness] Urdu-Nabû. Witness Šep-Issar, [...]. (r 2) [Witness] Issar-metu-uballiṭ. Witness Kaššud[u]. (r 3) [Witness] Nargî. Witness Gabbu-ilani.

State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).

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Transliteration

[NA₄].⸢KIŠIB⸣ mku-lu-uʾ—d[15] / [NA₄.KIŠIB m]da-an—URU.kur-ba-[ìl] / [TAv] ŠÀ URU.il-li-[x x] / [11] GÍN-MEŠ KUG.UD [ša d15 šá NINA.KI] / [ša] ⸢mGÌR*—15*⸣ [x x x] / [IGI m]⸢ARAD*—d*PA* IGI m*GÌR*.2*—15*⸣ / [IGI m]15—ÚŠ-tú—bal-liṭ IGI mka-šu-⸢du⸣ / [IGI m]nar-gi-i IGI mgab-bu—DINGIR-MEŠ

Scholarly note

Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335034.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335034). 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/P335034/.

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