SAA 06 273. A Silver Loan (676-VII-1) (ADD 0037)

~700 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P334989

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 6

High confidence

(1) Five minas (of silver) minus 6 shekels (by the mina) of Carchemish belonging to Ṭab-bit-Issar, at the disposal of Šep-Aššur. (4) Month Tishri (VII), 1st day, eponym year of Banbâ. (6) Witness Nergal-abu-uṣur. (7) Witness Marduk-iqbi. (8) Witness Qibit-Aššur. (r 1) Witness Dugul-Issar. (r 2) Witness Qibit-ili. (r 3) Witness Ner[gal]-na'id.

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

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Transliteration

⸢05*⸣ MA.NA 06 GÍN LÁ šá* gar*-⸢ga*⸣-mis* / šá mDÙG*—É—15 / ina IGI mGÌR.2—aš-šur / ITI.DU₆* UD 01-KÁM / lim-mu mba-an-ba-a / IGI mU.GUR—AD—PAB / IGI mdMES—iq-bi / IGI mqí-bit—aš-šur / IGI mdu-⸢gul⸣—15 / IGI mqí-bit—⸢DINGIR⸣ / IGI mU.⸢GUR⸣—I

Scholarly note

Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P334989.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334989). 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/P334989/.

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