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SAA 14 433. Inurta-šarru-uṣur Lends Silver (*616) (TIM 11 04)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [...] silver [belonging to Inurta]-šarru-u[ṣur], at the disposal of Tariba-Is[sar], son of Eribua. (5) He has taken it [as a loan]. (6) The silver shall [incre]ase [by a four]th. (r 1) [Month ...], 1st day, [eponym year of B]el-ahu-uṣur. (r 3) [Witness] Putaya. (r 4) [Witness] Ululayu. (r 5) [Witness] Ahu-ṭabu.
Source: 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/P224947/
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Transliteration
⸢x⸣+[x x x] KUG.UD ⸢x⸣+[x] / [ša] md[MAŠ]—MAN—⸢PAB⸣ / ina IGI mSU—⸢15?⸣ / DUMU mSU-u-⸢a⸣ / [ina pu-u-ḫi] ⸢it⸣-ti-ši / [KUG].UD [a-na 04]-⸢tú⸣-šú / [i]-⸢GAL⸣-bi / [ITI.x] UD 01-KÁM / [lim-me md]⸢EN⸣—PAB—PAB / [IGI m]pu-ta-a.a / [IGI] mITI.KIN-a.a / [IGI] m⸢PAB?⸣—ṭa-⸢bu⸣
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P224947.
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/P224947/..
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/P224947/.
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