Position in chronology
SAA 06 107. Aplaya Loans Three Minas of Silver (686-V-2) (ADD 0028)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) Three minas of silver by the (mina) of Carchemish, belonging to Aplaya, at the disposal of Sukkaya. (4) It will increase by 6 shekels per month. (5) Month Ab (V), 2nd day, eponym year of Bel-emuranni, commander-in-chief. (r 1) Witness Nabû-šezib. (r 2) Witness Abd-eli. (r 3) Witness Issar-duri. (r 4) Witness Apladad-hutni. (r 5) Witness Urda-Issar.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
03 MA.NA KUG.UD ina ša URU.gar-gar-mis / ša mDUMU.UŠ-ia / ina IGI msu-ka-a.a / 06 GÍN-MEŠ ša ITI-šú / GAL-bi ITI.NE UD 02-⸢KÁM⸣ / lim-mu mEN—IGI.LAL-a-ni / LÚv.tur-tan / IGI mdPA—še-zib / IGI mab-da-⸢li⸣ / IGI md15—BÀD / IGI mA.10—ḫu-ut-ni / IGI mARAD—d15
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P334980.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334980). 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/P334980/.
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