Position in chronology
SAA 06 237. Note of 12 Minas of Silver Owed to Silim-Aššur (670-VII-11) (ADD 0044)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) 12 minas of silver, first fruits of Ištar of Arbela, of the bread of the temple, belonging to Silim-Aššur, at the disposal of Zarutî son of Gugî. (7) It will increase by a fourth. (r 1) Witness Silim-ili. (r 2) Witness [...]-šallim. (r 3) Witness Šamaš-naplis. (r 4) Witness Ubbuqu. (r 5) Witness Ahunu. (r.e. 6) Witness Hanunu. (r.e. 7) Witness [NN]. (r.e. 8) Month Tis[hri (VII), ...th day], eponym year of Šulmu-beli-lašme.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
12 MA.NA KUG.UD / SAG-MEŠ ša 15 ša arba-ìl / ša NINDA*-MEŠ É—DINGIR / ša msi-lim—aš-šur / ina IGI mza-ru-ti-i / DUMU mgu-gi-i / a-na 04-ut-ti-šú GAL-⸢bi⸣ / IGI msi-lim—⸢DINGIR?⸣ / IGI md[x]—šal*-lim* / IGI md*šá*-maš*—⸢nap*-lis*⸣ / IGI mú-bu-⸢qu⸣ / IGI ma-ḫu-nu / IGI mḫa*-nu-nu* / IGI* m*⸢x⸣+[x x x] / ITI.⸢DUL⸣ [UD x-KÁM] / lim-mu mDI-mu—EN—⸢ḪAL⸣
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P334996.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334996). 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/P334996/.
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