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SAA 06 291. Note of Silver Owed to Eriba-Adad (670) (ADD 0042)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) One half mina of silver, capital of Ištar of Arbela belonging to Eriba-Adad, at the disposal of [...]-ilu. (5) [It shall inc]rease by a fourth. (6) Month [...], 1st [day], epon[ym year of Šulm]u-beli-lašme. (9) Witness Sukkaya. (10) Witness Urda-Issar. (r 1) Witness Taqisu. (r 2) Witness Akakua. (r 3) Witness Nergal-ibni. (r 4) Witness Aššur-šulmu-amur. (r 5) Witness Nabû-kibsi-(uṣur).
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
05 MA.NA KUG.UD SAG.DU / ša d15 ša URU.arba-ìl / ša mSU—dIM / ina IGI m[x x]—⸢DINGIR*⸣ / a-na 04-[ut-ti-šú i]-⸢rab*⸣-bi / ITI.[x UD] 01-KÁM / lim-[mu mDI]-⸢mu⸣—EN—la-áš-me / IGI mTE-a.a / IGI mARAD—d15 / IGI mta-qi-su / IGI ma-ka-ku-a? / IGI mU.GUR—DÙ / IGI maš-šur—DI—a-mur / IGI mdPA—kib-si—<PAB>
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P334994.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334994). 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/P334994/.
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