Position in chronology
SAA 06 075. Bahianu Loans 4 Homers of Barley (682-I-21) (ADD 0132)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) 1 homer of barley belonging to Bahianu, at the disposal of Gabbî. He has taken it as a loan. (stamp seal impression) (r 1) It shall increase by 5 seahs per homer. (stamp seal impression) (r 3) 4 harvesters. (r 4) Month Nisan (I), 21st day, eponym year of Nabû-šarru-(uṣur).
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
01* ANŠE ŠE.PAD-MEŠ / ša mba-ḫi-a-ni / ina IGI mga-bi-i / ina pu-u-ḫi it-ti-ši / a-na 01 :. 5(bán)-a.a / ta-rab-bi / 04 LÚv*.e-ṣi-di / ITI.BARAG UD 21-KÁM / lim-mu mdPA—MAN—<PAB>
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335083.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335083). source
Translation excerpted from Kwasman, T. & Parpola, S. 1991. Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part I: Tiglath-Pileser III through Esarhaddon. SAA 6. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa06/P335083/.
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