Position in chronology
SAA 06 139. Sin-šarru-uṣur, Prefect, Loans 4 Minas of Silver (693) (ADD 0032)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) 2 minas of silver, capital, belonging to Sin-sarru-uṣur, prefect, at the disposal of Ahû-eriba. (4) It shall bear interest by 4 shekels of silver per mina per month. (6) [He sa]id the other mina shall not bear interest. (7) Month [...], 12th [day], eponym year of Iddin-ahhe. (r 1) Witness B[el-em]uranni. (r 2) Witness Qu[rd]i-Harran. (r 3) Witness Šum[ma]-ahhe. (r 4) Witness Aššur-[al]ik-pani, prefect. (r 5) Witness Z[ar]utu. Witness Nabû-ahu-iddina.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
02 MA.NA KUG.UD SAG.DU / ša m30—MAN—PAB LÚv.GAR-nu / ina IGI mPAB-u—SU / 04 GÍN-MEŠ KUG.UD a-na 01 MA.NA / ša ITI-šú GAL-bi / ⸢ma*-a⸣ 01 MA.NA šá-ni-u la GAL-bi / ⸢ITI⸣.[x UD] 12-KÁM / lim-[mu m]AŠ—PAB-MEŠ / IGI m⸢EN*—IGI*⸣.LAL*-a-ni / IGI m⸢qur*-di?⸣—URU.KASKAL / IGI mBE*-[ma]—⸢PAB*⸣-MEŠ / IGI mdaš-šur—[a]-⸢lik*⸣—IGI LÚv.GAR-⸢nu⸣ / IGI m⸢NUMUN⸣-u-⸢tú⸣ IGI mdPA—PAB—AŠ
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P334984.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334984). 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/P334984/.
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