Position in chronology
SAA 06 208. Note of Silver Owed to Mannu-ki-Arbail (678-VI-6) (ADD 0018)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) 12 1/2 minas 5 shekels of sil[ver] belonging to Mannu-ki-[Arbail], (are) at the disposal of Ṣilli-Bel [...]. (blank seal space) (4) He shall pay the silver in Tishri (VII). [I]f he does not p[ay], the silver shall bear interest. (7) Month Elul (VI), 3rd day, eponym year of Ne[rgal-šarru-uṣur]. (r 1) Witness Inurta-belu-[...]. (r 2) Witness Mannu-ki-[ahhe]. (r 3) Witness Mannu-ki-[abi]. (r 4) Witness Nabû-ahhe-[...]. (r 5) Witness Nabû-eṭir-napšati, scribe.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
12 1/2 MA.NA 05 GÍN KUG.[UD x x] / ša mman-nu—ki-i—[arba-ìl] / ina IGI mṣil—EN [x x x] / ⸢ITI⸣.DUL KUG.UD SUM-⸢an⸣ / [šum]-ma la i-[din] / ⸢KUG⸣.UD i-ra-[bi] / ITI.KIN UD 03*-KÁM lim-mu mU.⸢GUR⸣—[MAN—PAB] / IGI mMAŠ*—EN—[x x x] / IGI mman-nu—ki-i—[PAB-MEŠ] / IGI mman-nu—ki-i—[AD] / IGI mdPA—PAB-MEŠ—[x x] / IGI mdPA—KAR—ZI-MEŠ / LÚv.A.BA
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P334970.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) ? — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334970). 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/P334970/.
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