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SAA 14 124. Bel-iqiša Lends Silver and Barley (*630) (ADD 0114)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(1) 30 shekels of silver, 10 homers of barley according to the [copper seah] of 9 1/2 'litres', belonging to Bel-iq[iša], at the disposal of Nadin-ah[he]. (6) [He has taken it] as a lo[an]. (Break) (r 1) Month [..., xth day], eponym year of Ṣalmu-[šarru-iqbi]. (r 3) Witness Marduk-na'id, [...]. (r 4) Witness Uraš-ri[ba]. (r 5) Witness Issar-duri. (r 6) Witness Mann[u-...]. (r 7) Witness Ahu-eriba. Witness [NN]. (r 8) Witness Šarru-emur[anni]. (e. 1) [Witness] Nabû-šadûni, scribe.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
30 GÍN-MEŠ KUG.UD / 10 ANŠE ŠE.PAD-MEŠ ina [GIŠ.BÁN] / ša 09 1/2 qa [URUDU] / ša mEN—⸢BA⸣-[šá] / ina IGI mAŠ—PAB-[MEŠ] / a-na pu-u-[ḫi it-ti-ši] / ITI.[x UD x-KAM] / lim-mu mNU*—[MAN—E] / IGI mdŠÚ—⸢I?⸣ [x x x] / IGI mdIB*—⸢SU?⸣ / IGI m15—⸢BÀD?⸣ / IGI mman-nu—[x x x] / IGI mPAB—SU IGI m[x x x x] / IGI mMAN—IGI.⸢LAL⸣-[a-ni] / [IGI mdPA—KUR-u-ni] / A.BA
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335065.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335065). 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/P335065/.
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