Position in chronology
SAA 06 029. 5 Men Borrow Money against Land from Madayu (710-X-17) (ADD 1246)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) A quarter (mina) of silver and 47 minas of copper, capital — (2) Ubru-Adad, Balasî, Adad-mušeṣi, Izbu, Ilu-iqbi, and Ṣeranu took it from Madayu (as a loan) against a field. (r 1) If the field is not in the meadow where they indicated it (to be), the silver and copper shall increase by the same amount. (r 4) Witness Sin-na'id, tanner of colored leather. (r 5) Witness Nabû-zeru-lešir, scribe. (r 6) Witness Ibašši-ila'i, servant of the commander-in-chief. (r.e. 7) Month Tebet (X), 17th day, eponym year of Šamaš-belu-uṣur of Arzuhina.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
04-tú KUG.UD 47 MA.NA URUDU-MEŠ / SAG.DU mSUḪUŠ—dIM / mba-la-si-i m10—mu-še-ṣi / miz-bu mDINGIR—iq-bi / mṣe-ra-a-nu / TA IGI mmad-a.a / ina ŠÀ A.ŠÀ.GA / it-ta-ṣu šúm-mu A.ŠÀ.GA / ina ŠÀ ú-šal-li É ú-kal-lim-šu-u-ni / la-šu KUG!.UD URUDU-MEŠ a-na mit-ḫar / i-rab-be-u IGI m30—I / LÚv.ṣa-rip—tuḫ-ši-e IGI mdPA—NUMUN—GIŠ / LÚv.A.BA IGI mÌ.GÁL—DINGIR-a.a / LÚv.ARAD ša LÚv.tur-tan ITI.AB / UD 17-KAM lim-mu mdUTU—EN—PAB / ša KUR.ur-zu-⸢ḫi⸣-na
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P336009.
Attribution
Image: BM 098543 (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P336009). 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/P336009/.
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