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SAA 06 069. Bahianu Loans 10 Homers of Barley (688-X-6) (ADD 1213+)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) 20 homers of barley belonging to Bah[ianu, at the dis]posal of Ahu'[ay]a. (fingernail impressions) (4) He has taken it as a loan. (5) Witness Na[nay]a. (6) Witness Nabû'a, chariot fighter. (r 1) [It shall increa]se two seahs per homer. (r 3) [Month ...], 6th [day, epony]m year of Iddin-ahhe, governor of Ṣimirra.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
20* ANŠE ŠE.PAD-[MEŠ] / ⸢ša⸣ mba-[ḫi-a-ni] / ina IGI mPAB-[u-a].⸢a*⸣ / ina pu-u-ḫi ⸢ÍL⸣-ši / IGI mna*-⸢na*⸣-[a].⸢a*⸣ / IGI mdPA-⸢u-a⸣ / LÚv.A—SIG / ⸢a*-na*⸣ 01* :. 02 BÁN*-a.a / [i-rab]-⸢bi*⸣ / [ITI.x UD] 06-KÁM / [lim]-mu mAŠ—PAB-MEŠ / LÚv.GAR.KUR URU.ṣi-me-⸢er⸣
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335992.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Theodore Kwasman and Simo Parpola , Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part I: Tiglath-Pileser III through Esarhaddon (State Archives of Assyria, 6), 1991. Lemmatised by Melanie Groß, 2010–2011, as part of the FWF-funded research project "Royal Institutional Households in First Millennium BC Mesopotamia" (S 10802-G18) directed by Heather D. Baker at the University of Vienna. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P335992/..
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/P335992/.
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