SAA 06 078. 12 Persons Borrow Barley from Bahianu (ADD 0138)

~700 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P335089

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 6

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(Beginning destroyed) (1) One [ditto — ......], (2) one ditto — [......], (3) one ditto — Še[...], (4) one ditto — Urda-[...], (5) one ditto — Gallu[lu], (6) 5 seahs — Ubru-ahhe, (7) 5 seahs — Šamaš-naṣir, (8) one ditto — Eriba-ilani, (9) one ditto — Ahunî, (stamp seal impression) (r 1) 5 seahs — Qurdi-Issar, (r 2) 5 seahs — Kubabu-ahu-iddina, (r 3) one ditto — Kubabu-ila'i; (r 4) (barley) belonging to Bahia[nu, at their disposal]. (r 5) [They have ta]ken it as a loan. (r 6) [Month Ni]san (I), 1[0th] day. (Break) (e. 1) [...] withdrawn.

State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).

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Transliteration

01 [: mx x x x x] / 01 : [mx x x x x] / 01 : m⸢še*-x⸣+[x x x] / 01 : mARAD*—⸢x⸣+[x x x] / 01 : mga-⸢lul⸣ / 5(bán) mSUḪUŠ—PAB-⸢MEŠ⸣ / 5(bán) mdUTU—PAB-ir / 01 : mSU*—DINGIR-MEŠ-ni / 01 : mPAB-u-ni-i / 5(bán) mqur-di—15 / 5(bán) mkù-KÁ—PAB—AŠ / 01 : mkù-KÁ—DINGIR-a.a / ša mba-ḫi-a-⸢ni⸣ [ina pa-ni-šú-nu] / ina pu-u-ḫi it-[ta-ṣu] / [ITI].⸢BARAG⸣ UD-10-[x-KÁM] / [x x x x x x] ⸢na⸣-as-ḫa-at

Scholarly note

Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335089.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335089). 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/P335089/.

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