Position in chronology
SAA 06 184. Note of Copper Owed to Sin-remanni (ADD 0108)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) One talent and 3 min[as of copper], first fruits of [Ištar of Arbela], belonging to Sin-[remanni], at the disposal of Gab[...]. (5) Witness Bel-Harran-[...]. (6) Witness Ban[î ...]. (7) Witness Ša[maš-...]. (r 1) Witness Bisi[...]. (r 2) Witness Šep-[...], (r 3) Month [..., ...th day, eponym year of NN]. (r 4) Witness Marduk-[..., scribe].
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
bi-lat 03 MA.⸢NA⸣ [URUDU-MEŠ] / SAG-MEŠ šá d[15 šá URU.arba—ìl] / ša md30—[re-man-ni] / ina IGI mgab-[x x x] / IGI mEN—KASKAL—[x x x] / IGI mba-ni-[i x x] / IGI md⸢UTU?⸣—[x x x] / IGI mbi-si*-⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] / IGI mGÌR.2—[x x x] / ⸢ITI⸣ [x x x] / IGI md⸢AMAR⸣.[UTU—x x x]
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335059.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335059). 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/P335059/.
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