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SAA 06 183. Sin-remanni Loans Two Minas of Silver (683) (ADD 0047)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) Two minas of silver by the mina of Carchemish, belonging to Sin-remanni, at the disposal of Mannu-ki-Issaran, [ma]jor-domo of the viziers. (6) [...] minas [...] (Break) (r 1) [Month ..., ...]th [day], eponym year of Mannu-ki-Adad. (r 3) Witness Šarru, singer.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
02 MA.NA KUG.UD / ina 01 MA.NA ša URU.gar-ga-mis / ša md30—rém-ni / ina IGI mman-nu—ki—AN.GAL / ⸢GAL*—É*⸣ ša SUKKAL-MEŠ / [x x x] MA.NA ⸢x x x⸣ / [ITI.x UD x]-⸢KAM*⸣ / ⸢lim-mu⸣ mman-nu—ki—10 / IGI* m*MAN LÚv.NAR
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P334999.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334999). 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/P334999/.
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