Position in chronology
SAA 14 199. Mudabbirayu Lends Three Minas of Silver (ADD 0006)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(1) Seal of Se'-uri. (2) Seal of Našuh-qati-ṣabat. (3) 3 minas of refined silver belonging to Mudabirayu, at their disposal. (6) They have taken it as a loan. The silver shall increase by a sixth. (r 2) Month Sivan (III), 18th day. (r 3) Witness Zubi-ṣidqi. (r 4) Witness Balaṭia. (r 5) Witness Sara-il. (r 6) Witness Našuh-dalâ. (r 7) Witness Al-našuh-milki.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
⸢NA₄⸣.KIŠIB mse-eʾ—⸢ú-ri⸣ / NA₄.KIŠIB mna-šuḫ—ŠU.2—DIB / 03 MA.NA KUG.UD LUḪ / ša mmu-da-bir-a.a / ina IGI-šú-nu a-na pu-u-ḫi / it-ta-ṣu / KUG.UD a-na 06-su-šú / i-ra-bi / ITI.SIG₄ UD 18-KÁM / IGI mzu-bi—ṣi-id-qi / IGI mDIN-ia / IGI msa-ra—DINGIR / IGI mna-šuḫ—da-bi-a / IGI mal—na-šuḫ—mil-ki
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P334958.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334958). 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/P334958/.
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