Position in chronology
SAA 06 167. Note of Silver Owed to Bel-lamur (686-VIII-20) (ADD 0009)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) 1 1/2 minas of silver by the mina of the king belonging to Bel-lamur, at the disposal of Sukkaya. (4) He shall pay in Tebet (X). If he does not, the silver shall increase by a fourth. (7) Witness Azî. (8) Witness Bel-Harran-duri. (r 1) Witness Nergal-ibni. (r 2) Witness Šulmu-beli-lašme. (r 3) Witness Nušku-ila'i. (r 4) Witness Nabû-eriba. (r 5) Witness Nabû-bel-šumati, porter. (r 6) Month Marchesvan (VIII), 20th day, eponym year of Bel-emuranni.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
01 1/2 MA.NA KUG.UD ina 01 ma-né-e šá MAN / ša mEN—la-mur / ina pa-an msuk-ka-a.a / ina ITI.AB KUG.UD i-dan / šúm-ma la i-din a-na 04-tú-šú / KUG.UD i-rab-bi / IGI ma-zi-i / IGI mEN—KASKAL—BÀD / IGI mU.GUR—DÙ / IGI mDI-mu—EN—la-áš-me / IGI mdPA.TÚG—DINGIR-a.a / IGI mdPA—SU / IGI mdPA—EN—MU-MEŠ LÚv.Ì.DU₈ / ITI.APIN UD 20-KÁM / lim-mu mEN—IGI-a-ni
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P334961.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334961). 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/P334961/.
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