Position in chronology
SAA 14 446. Court Order Concerning a Silver Loan (*612-VII) (TIM 11 22)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(1) Se[al] of Aṣi', son of [T]amurṭiše, (3) 10[+x shekel]s of silver (seal impressions) (4) 10 days (5) ... (6) A'e[... ....] (7) ...[...] (8) ...[...] (r 1) shall gi[ve ...] (r 2) A'[e..., Aṣ]i', (r 3) ...[... If] they do not do the work, the silver will increase .... (r 5) they will do [...] (r 6) [...] Month Tishri (VII), eponym year of Šamaš-šarru-ibni, (r 7) Witness [...], [...]. (e. 1) Witness Haqu-niše. (e. 2) ditto Ši-eše. (e. 3) He has paid off a document for 7 shekels of silver.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
NA₄.⸢KIŠIB⸣ [m]a-ṣe-eʾ / A [m]⸢ta⸣-ḪAR-ṭi-še / 10 ⸢x⸣+[x GÍN]-MEŠ KUG.UD / 10 UD-MEŠ / na-áš-mu-tu / mʾa-e-[x x x x] / ina ŠÀ-bi [x x x x] / ina UD [x x x x x] / ⸢SUM⸣-[an x x x x x] / m⸢ʾa?⸣-[e-x x x ma]-⸢ṣi?-iʾ?⸣ / i-⸢lak⸣ [x x šum-ma] dul-lu / la e-⸢pu⸣-[šú (x x)] ⸢KUG.UD?⸣ ina maš-lu-šú GAL / a-⸢x⸣+[x x]+⸢x x⸣ e-pa-šu-ni / ú-[x x] ITI.DUL lim-me mdUTU—MAN—DÙ / IGI m[x x x]+⸢x x x x x⸣ / ⸢IGI⸣ mḫa-qu—ni-še / : mši-i—e-še / e-gír-tú šá 07 GÍN KUG.UD / u-sal-lim
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P224966.
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/P224966/..
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/P224966/.
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