SAA 06 263. Duplicate of the Previous Text (680-VII-21) (ADD 0003)

~700 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P334955

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 6

High confidence

(1) One mina of silver by the (mina) of Carche[mish], belonging to Sangû-Issar, at the disposal of Aduna-izzi. (4) He has taken it as a loan. It will increase by a fourth. (6) [Mon]th Tishri (VII), 21st day, eponym year of Dananu. (r 1) Witness Arbailayu. (r 2) Witness Nabû-bani-ahhe. (r 3) Witness Aya-ahhe. (r 4) Witness Ubru-Nabû.

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

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Transliteration

01 MA.NA KUG.UD ina ša gar-ga-[mis] / ša mSANGA—15 / ina IGI ma-du-na—iz / ina pu-u-ḫi i-ti-ši / a-na 04-ut-ti-šú GAL-bi / ⸢ITI⸣.DUL UD 21 / lim-me mda-na-nu / IGI mURU.arba-ìl-a.a / IGI mdPA—DÙ—PAB-MEŠ / IGI ma.a—PAB-MEŠ / IGI mSUḪUŠ—dPA

Scholarly note

Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P334955.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334955). 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/P334955/.

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