Position in chronology
SAA 06 157. Mannu-ki-Arbail Loans Copper (687-VII-20) (ADD 0043)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) 31 minas of copper, capital, belonging to Ištar of Arbela — (3) Šep-Adad has tak[en] it as a loan from Mannu-ki-[Arbail]. (6) He shall pay on the 1st of [...]. If he does n[ot pay], it will increase by a thi[rd]. (r 3) Witness Ṭab-šar-[...]. (r 4) Witness Abi-larim. (r 5) Witness Ya-dadu. (r 6) Witness Balṭayu. (r 7) Witness Quya. Witness Za[...]. (r.e. 8) Witness Nabû-ahhe-riba. (r.e. 9) Month Tishri (VII), 20th day, eponym year of Sennache[rib].
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
⸢31⸣ MA.NA URUDU-MEŠ SAG.DU / šá d15 šá URU.arba-ìl / mGÌR.2—dIM / TAv IGI mman-nu—ki—URU.[arba-ìl] / ina pu-u*-ḫi i-⸢ti⸣-[ši] / ina UD 01-KÁM šá* ⸢ITI⸣.[x] / i-da-[an] / šúm-mu ⸢la⸣ [SUM]-ni / a-na 03-⸢si*⸣-[šú] / i-rab-⸢bi⸣ / IGI mDÙG.GA—IM—[x x] / IGI mAD—la-rim / IGI mia—da-du / ⸢IGI⸣ mbal-ṭa-a.a / [IGI] mqu-u-ia IGI mza*-[x x] / IGI mdPA—PAB-MEŠ—SU / ITI.DU₆ UD 20-KÁM / lim-me m30—PAB-MEŠ—[SU]
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P334995.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334995). 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/P334995/.
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