Position in chronology
SAA 06 214. Mannu-ki-Arbail Loans Copper (676-III-11) (ADD 0040)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) Two talents of copper, first fruits of Ištar of Arbela, belonging to Mannu-ki-Arbail, at the disposal of Šamaš-ahhe-šallim. (5) He shall pay in Ab (V). If he does not pay, it will increase by a third. (r 2) Month Sivan (III), 11th day, eponym year of Banbâ. (r 4) Witness Kubabu-ereš. (r 5) Witness Quwa. Šarru-iqbi. (r 6) Witness Danqu-dibbi-šarri. (r.e. 7) Witness Nabû'a.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
02 GÚ.UN URUDU-MEŠ SAG-MEŠ / ša d15 ša URU.arba-ìl / ša mman-nu—ki—arba-ìl / ina IGI mdUTU—PAB-MEŠ-e—DI / ina ITI.NE id-dan.an / šum-ma la-a id-di-ni / a-na 03-su-šú-nu / i-rab-bi-u / ina ITI.SIG₄ UD 11-KAM / lim-mu mban-ba-a / IGI mkù-KÁ—KAM-eš / IGI mqu-u-a mMAN—iq-bi / IGI mSIG₅—INIM-MEŠ—LUGAL / IGI mdPA-u-a
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P334992.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334992). 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/P334992/.
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