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SAA 14 441. Pan-Issar-lamur, Eunuch, Lends One Mina of Silver (*634-II-22) (TIM 11 16)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) 1 mina of silver by (the mina) of Carchemish belonging to Pan-Issar-lamur, eunuch, at the disposal of Nergal-ila'i, son of Il-dalâ, from the town of Gabšuete. (6) He shall pay the silver in its original amount on the new moon day of month Tishri (VII). (9) If he does not pay, the silver shall increase by a fourth. (r 2) Month Iyyar (II), 22(nd) day, eponym year of Bulluṭu. (r 4) Witness Mullissu-metu-uballiṭ. (r 5) Witness Nusku-šarru-uṣur. (r 6) Witness Ahû'a-eriba, chariot driver. (r 7) Witness Silim-ili, cupbearer. (r.e. 8) Witness Ṭab-šar-bab-papahi, village manager. (e. 1) Witness Ila'i-Adad, staff bearer. (e. 3) Witness Al-ili.
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/P224958/
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Transliteration
01 MA.NA KUG.UD ina ša gar-ga-mis / ša mIGI—15—la-a-mur SAG / ina IGI mU.GUR—DINGIR-a.a / A mDINGIR—dàl-a / TA ŠÀ URU.ga-ab-šu-e-te / ina SAG.DU DINGIR GIBIL / ša ITI.DUL KUG.UD / ina SAG.DU-šú SUM-an / šúm-ma la SUM-ni / KUG.UD a-na 04-ut-ti-šú / i-ra-bi / ITI.GUD UD 22 / lim-mu mbu-luṭ / IGI mdNIN.LÍL—ÚŠ—bal-liṭ / IGI [m]dPA.TÚG—MAN—PAB / IGI mPAB-u-a—SU DIB—PA-MEŠ / IGI msi-lim—DINGIR KAŠ.LUL / IGI mDÙG—IM—KÁ—pa-pa-ḫi / GAL—URU-MEŠ / IGI mDINGIR-a.a—10 / ša—GIŠ.PA / IGI mal—DINGIR
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P224958.
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/P224958/..
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/P224958/.
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