SAA 06 240. Note of Silver Owed to Dannaya (676-III-4) (ADD 0011)

~700 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P334963

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 6

High confidence

(1) 38 shekels of silver [belonging to] Dannaya, at the disposal of La-qepu. (4) He shall pay back on the 20th of Tammuz (IV). If he does not, it will increase by a fourth. (r 1) Witness Šamaš. Witness Nergal. (r 2) Witness Mannu-iqbi. (r 3) Witness Misu. (r 4) Witness Marduk. (r 5) [Witness] Nabû-natkil, royal bodyguard. (r 6) [Witness] Nergal-eṭir. (r 7) [Month Siv]an (III), 4th day, [eponym year of] Banbâ.

State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).

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Transliteration

⸢38⸣ GÍN KUG.UD / [ša] mdan-na-a.a / ⸢ina IGI⸣ mla—qe-pi / ina UD 20-KÁM ša ITI.ŠU / SUM-an šúm-ma / la—din a-na 04-tú-šú / GAL-bi / IGI o* dUTU IGI* dU.GUR* / IGI mman-nu—iq-bi / IGI mmi-i-su / ⸢IGI⸣ mmar-duk / [IGI m]dPA—nat-kil LÚv.qur-bu-<te> / [IGI md]MAŠ.MAŠ—KAR-ir / [ITI].⸢SIG₄*⸣ UD 04-KÁM / [lim-mu m]ban-ba-a

Scholarly note

Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P334963.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334963). 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/P334963/.

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