Position in chronology
SAA 06 026. Zazi Loans 20 Minas of Silver (711-I-21) (ADD 0005)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) 20 minas of silver by the mina of Carchemish, belonging to Zazî, [[at the disposal of Adad-iqiša]], at the disposal of Šulmu-šarri, Ahabû, Aššur-mutakkil-šarri and Kakkiya. (7) They have taken it as a loan. It shall increase by a third. (8) Witness Šubî-il, guarantor. (r 1) Witness Lip[hu]r-ilu, guarantor. (r 2) Witness Arbailayu, 'third man.' (r 3) Witness Kur-ila'i, 'third man.' (r 4) Witness Inurta-ahu-iddina, deputy of the old palace. (r 5) Witness Se'-ṭuri, smith. (r 6) Witness Man-kî, ditto of bronze. (r 7) Month Nisan (I), 21st day, eponym year of Inurta-alik-pani, governor of Si'immê. (r.e. 9) Witness Nabû-zer-ketti-lešir, scribe.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
20 MA.NA KUG.UD ina MA.NA ša* KUR.gar-ga-mis / ša mza-zi-i <$ina* IGI* md*IM*—BA*$> / ina IGI mDI-mu—MAN / ina IGI mPAB-bu-u / ina IGI maš-šur—mu-tak-kil—MAN / ina IGI mka-ak-ki-ia / ina pu-u-ḫi i-ta-ṣu / a-na 03-su-šú i-rab-bi / IGI mšu-⸢bi?-i*⸣—DINGIR EN—ŠU.2-MEŠ / IGI m⸢lip*-ḫur*⸣—DINGIR EN—ŠU.2-MEŠ / IGI marba-ìl-a.a LÚv.03-šú / IGI mkur-ri-la-a.a LÚv.03-šú / IGI mdMAŠ—PAB—AŠ LÚv.02-u É.GAL…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P334957.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334957). 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/P334957/.
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