Position in chronology
SAA 06 236. Silim-Aššur Loans 10 Shekels of Silver (670-II-10) (ADD 0099)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) Se[al] of Minu-[ahṭi]-ana-ili. (2) 10 shekels [of sil]ver belonging to [Silim-Aššur] (blank seal space) (3) at his disposal, in lieu of Pudupiyati. (4) Minu-ahṭi-ana-ili shall pay the silver to Silim-Aššur. (6) If Pudupiyati does not pay the silver, [...]. (r 1) Month Iyyar (II), 10th day, eponym year of Šulmu-beli-lašme. (blank seal space) (r 2) Witness Mannu-ki-ṣabi. (r 3) Witness Eriba-Adad. Witness Šulmu-ahhe. (r 4) Witness Ai-suri. (r 5) He shall pay the silver on the 20th day.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
⸢NA₄⸣.[KIŠIB m]mi-i-nu—[aḫ-ṭi]—a-na—DINGIR / 10 ⸢GÍN⸣-[MEŠ KUG].UD* šá [msi-lim—AN.ŠÁR] / ina IGI-šú ku!-mu mpu-du-pi-ia-ti / mmi-i-nu—aḫ-ṭi—⸢a⸣-na—DINGIR KUG.UD / a-na msi-lim—AN.ŠÁR* ⸢SUM⸣-an / BE-ma mpu-du-pi-ia-ti / ⸢KUG⸣.UD la-a i-da-na [x x] / ITI.GUD UD 10-KÁM lim-mu mDI-mu—⸢EN—la⸣-áš-me / IGI mman-nu—ki—ERIM-MEŠ / IGI mSU—d10* IGI mDI-mu—PAB-MEŠ / IGI ma-i—su*-ú-ri / a-na UD 20-KÁM KUG.UD SUM-an
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335050.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Theodore Kwasman and Simo Parpola , Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part I: Tiglath-Pileser III through Esarhaddon (State Archives of Assyria, 6), 1991. Lemmatised by Melanie Groß, 2010–2011, as part of the FWF-funded research project "Royal Institutional Households in First Millennium BC Mesopotamia" (S 10802-G18) directed by Heather D. Baker at the University of Vienna. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P335050/..
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/P335050/.
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