Position in chronology
SAA 14 160. Nusku-šarru-uṣur Lends Silver (*625) (ADD 1165)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(Beginning destroyed) (1) The remainder of the accounts that are at the disposal of Kenî. (2) He shall bring in the month Elul (VI) and give (them) to the official of Nusku-šarru-uṣur in Arpadda. (4) If he does not pay, Bur-naṣabâ, Kubti ..., [...], [...]te-Šer, son of Lubur-pî, the guarantors of Šer-idri, shall pay in full these accounts [to] Nusku-šarru-uṣur in Nineveh. (r 4) [The one who is pre]sent shall pay these [ac]counts in full. (r 5) Month [..., ...]th [day], eponym year of Sin-šarru-uṣur, palace scribe. (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
⸢re*⸣-ḫe*-te NÍG.ŠID-MEŠ ša ina IGI m⸢GIN⸣-i / ⸢ina⸣ ITI.KIN ú-bal-la ina* URU*.ar*-pad*-da* / a-na EN—pi-qit-te ša mdPA.TÚG—MAN—PAB i-dan* o* / [šum]-⸢ma⸣ la SUM-ni mbur—na-ṣa-pa-a mkù-ub-ti-⸢x⸣ LÚ.⸢x⸣+[x x] / [mx]-te—dše-rum DUMU mlu-bur—pi-i / ⸢EN⸣—ŠU.2-MEŠ ša mdše-rum—id-ri / [NÍG].ŠID*-MEŠ an-nu-te ina URU.ni-nu-u / [m]dPA.TÚG—MAN—PAB ú-šal-lam / [ša kar-mu]-ni NÍG.ŠID-MEŠ an-nu-te ú-šal-lam / [ITI.x UD x]-KAM lim-mu m30—MAN—PAB A.⸢BA—KUR*⸣ / [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣+[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 P335947.
Attribution
Image: BM 099075 (British Museum, London, UK) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335947). 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/P335947/.
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