Position in chronology
SAA 14 163. Nabu-iqbi Lends 17 Shekels of Silver (*622-VIII-21) (ADD 0088)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(1) Seal of Mutaqqin-Aššur. (2) Seal of Aššur-reši-išši, son of Silim-Aššur. (4) 17 shekels of silver of Ištar of Arbela belonging to Nabû-iqbi, at their disposal. (stamp seal impressions) (6) They have taken it as a loan. It shall increase by a fourth. (8) He shall cultivate and harvest the field as a tenant-farmer. (r 2) Neither a royal delegate nor his prefect shall have the usufruct of even half (of the field). (r 4) He (the creditor) will be paid his debts in full from the field. (r 5) Month Marchesvan (VIII), 21st day, eponym year of Dadî, treasurer. (r 7) Witness Mannu-ki-Issar-le'i.…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB mmu-LAL—aš-šur / NA₄.KIŠIB maš-šur—SAG—i-ši / A msi-lim—aš-šur / 17 GÍN-MEŠ KUG.UD ša d15 ša URU.arba-ìl / ša mdPA—iq-bi ina IGI-šú-nu / ina pu-u-ḫi it-ta-ṣu / ina 04-tú-šú e-rab-bi / A.ŠÀ ina a-ri-šu-ti / e-ra-áš e-ṣi-da / la LÚ.TIL.GÍD.DA la šá-ka-šú / mu-tú-u-tu KÚ TAv ŠÀ-bi A.ŠÀ / ḫa-bu-li-šú ú-sa-at-a-lam / ITI.APIN UD 21-KAM / lim-mu mU.U-i LÚ.IGI.DUB / IGI mman-nu—ki—15—ZU / IGI…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335040.
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/P335040/..
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/P335040/.
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