Position in chronology
SAA 14 164. Inner Tablet of the Preceding Text (ADD 0087)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(1) 17 shekels of silver belonging to Ištar of Arbela, belonging to Nabû-iqbi, at the disposal of Mutaqqin-Aššur, at the disposal of Aššur-reši-išši. (3) They have taken it as a loan. It shall increase b[y] a fourth. (5) He shall cultivate and harvest the field as a tenant-farmer. (6) Neither a royal delegate [nor] his prefect shall have the usufruct of even half (of the field). (8) He (the creditor) will be paid his [de]bts in full from the field. (r 1) Month Marchesvan (VIII), 21st day, eponym year of Dadî, treasurer. (r 3) Witness Mannu-ki-Issar-le'i. (r 4) Witness Urdu-Nanaya. (r 5) Witness Nergal-abu-uṣur. (r 6) Witness Issar-mašlallate.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
17 GÍN-MEŠ KUG.UD ša d15 ša URU.arba-ìl / ša mdPA—E ina IGI mmu-LAL—aš-šur / ina IGI maš-šur—SAG—i-ši ina pu-u-ḫi i-ta-ṣu / ⸢ina⸣ 04-tú-šú e-ra-bi / ⸢A.ŠÀ⸣ ina a-ri-šu-ú-te / e-ra-áš e-ṣi-da la qe-e-pu / [la] šá-ka-šú mu-tu-ú-tu / ⸢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—d15—ZU / IGI mARAD—dna-na-a / IGI mdU.GUR—AD—PAB / IGI md15—maš-lal-la-a-te
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335039.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335039). 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/P335039/.
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