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SAA 06 063. Note of 10 Minas of Copper Owed to Bahianu (695-IX-3) (ADD 0031)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) Seal of Bel-lešir. (2) 10 minas of copper, capital, belonging to Bahianu, at his disposal. (stamp seal impressions) (4) He shall pay in the month of Ab (V), on the 21st day. (5) If he does not pay, it shall increase by the same amount. (7) Month Ab (V), 3rd day, eponym year of Aššur-belu-uṣur. (r 2) Witness Nabû-ahu-uṣur. (r 3) Witness Mannu-ki-Nabû. (stamp seal impression) (r 4) Witness Nergal-ibni, scribe. (r 5) Witness Ṭab-Bel, overseer of the household. (stamp seal impression)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB mEN—GIŠ / 10 MA.NA URUDU SAG.DU / ša mba-ḫi-a-nu ina IGI-šú / ina ⸢ITI⸣.GAN! UD 21-KÁM SUM-an / šum-ma la i-dan / a-na mit-ḫar GAL-bi-u / ITI.GAN! UD 03-KÁM / lim-mu maš-šur—U—PAB / IGI mdPA—PAB—PAB / IGI mman-nu—ki—dPA / IGI mU.GUR—DÙ-ni A.BA / IGI mDÙG—EN šá—UGU—É
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P334983.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334983). 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/P334983/.
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