Position in chronology
SAA 14 137. Aš[...] Lends 15 Minas of Silver (657-XI) (ADD 0010)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(1) 15 mi[nas ... of silver] by the min[a of ...] belonging to A[š...], at the disposal of Er[eš-...] and at the disposal of Qi[...]. (6) [They took it] as a loan. [It shall increase] by a four[th]. (8) Month Shebat (XI), [...th day], eponym year of La-[baši, ...]. (r 2) Witness Šamaš-da[...]. (r 3) Witness Ala[...]. (r 4) Witness Atan[ha-DN]. (r 5) Witness Na[bû-...]. (r 6) Witness [...].
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
15 MA.[NA x x KUG.UD] / ina 01 MA.⸢NA⸣ [ša x x x] / ša m⸢aš*⸣-[x x x] / ina IGI m⸢KAM?⸣-[eš—x x] / ina IGI mqi-[x x x] / ina pu-u-ḫi [i-ta-ṣu] / a-na ⸢04⸣-[tú-šú GAL-bi] / ITI.ZÍZ [UD x-KÁM] / lim-mu mla*—[ba-si x x] / IGI mdUTU*—⸢da*-x⸣+[x x] / IGI ma-la-[x x] / IGI ma-tan*-[ḫa—dx] / IGI md⸢PA*⸣—[x x] / IGI m⸢x⸣+[x x x]
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P334962.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334962). 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/P334962/.
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