SAA 14 173. Inner Tablet of the Preceding Text (ADD 1160)

~655 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P335942

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 14

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(1) 1/2 mina 5 shekels and 1/3, accounts of Ištar [of Nineveh]. (3) [......]. (4) The silver shall increase by [...]. (6) [...]-iddina is the guarantor. (7) Month Elul (VI), 8(th) day, eponym year of Šamaš-šarru-ibni. (r 1) Witness Nabû-kenu-balliṭ. (r 2) Witness Issar-ereš. (r 3) Witness Zar-Issar. (r.e. 4) Witness Še'û. (r.e. 5) Witness Bel-šimanni.

State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).

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Transliteration

1/2 MA 05* GÍN 03 UDU / [NÍG].ŠID-MEŠ šá 15? ⸢ni⸣-[nu] / [x x x x] ⸢x⸣+[x] / [x x x x] ⸢KUG⸣ o* / ina [x x x] GAL-bi / [m]⸢x x—AŠ⸣ EN—ŠU.2-MEŠ / ITI.KIN UD 08 / lim-mu mdUTU—MAN—DÙ / IGI mdPA—GIN—TI / IGI m15—APIN-eš / IGI mNUMUN—15 / IGI mše-ʾu-u / IGI mEN—ḪAL-e-u-ni

Scholarly note

Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335942.

Attribution

Image: BM 099028 (British Museum, London, UK) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335942). 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/P335942/.

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