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SAA 06 021. A Building Contract (734) (ADD 0090)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Šamaš-bani-apli, [NN], La-tubašanni-[ilu, NN], Ken-abuya, Ahu-i[la'i], a total of six men. (5) (Their wage is) 2 talents of copper and 3 homers 6 seahs (c. 700 litres) of bread and beer. (7) They shall work for a month. One shall install beams on the entire barn, plaster the roof, and put in the drain pipe. (r 1) If the bricks are in short supply, they shall do their work and finish it in the following month. (r 5) Witness Abu-ul-idi. (r 6) Witness Qurbu-ilu. (r 7) Witness Adad-ahu-uṣur. (r 8) Witness Inurta-bel-u[ṣur]. (r 9) [Witness] Ṣil-[...]. (r 10) [Witness] Nabû-[...]. (r 11) [Witness] Adad-[...]. (r 12) [Month ...], 6th day, eponym year of Bel-dan, during his second term.
Source: 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/P335042/
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Transliteration
mdUTU—DÙ—A ⸢x⸣+[x x x] / mla—tú-ba-šá-ni—[DINGIR mx x] / mGIN—AD-ia mŠEŠ—⸢DINGIR⸣-[a-a] / PAB 06 LÚ.ERIM-MEŠ / 02 GÚ.UN URUDU-MEŠ / 03 ANŠE 6(bán) NINDA-MEŠ KAŠ*-MEŠ* / ša* ITI dul-lu DÙ-uš* / tal-pi-tú gab-bu / GIŠ.ÙR*-MEŠ* ú-ṣa-bat / ú-ri i-si-ár / GIŠ*.pi-sa*-nu / GAR-an / šúm-mu li-bi-⸢tú*⸣ / ta-ma-ṭí / EGIR* ITI dul-la-šú*-nu* / DÙ-uš* ú-ga-mur / IGI mAD—ul—ZU / IGI mqur-bu—DINGIR / IGI…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335042.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335042). 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/P335042/.
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