Position in chronology
SAA 06 108. Aplaya Loans 1/2 Mina of Silver (683-I-25) (ADD 0051)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) [S]eal of Belet-ereš. An enve[lope (copy) concerning] 1/2 mina of silver, capital, by the mina of Car[chemish], (blank seal space) (3) belonging to Aplaya, at the disposal of Belet-ereš. (4) It will increase 4 shekels of silver per month. (5) Witness Inurta-remanni. Witness Nabû-ušabši. (6) Witness Kandalanu. (r 1) Witness Same'. Witness Nabû-ahu-uṣur. (r 2) Month Nisan (I), 25th day, eponym year of Mannu-ki-Adad of Ṣupat. (r 3) Witness El-nurî.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
⸢NA₄⸣.KIŠIB mdGAŠAN—APIN-eš ki-⸢ṣir⸣-[ti] / 1/2 MA.NA KUG.UD SAG.DU ina 01 MA.NA-e* gar-[ga-mis] / ša mDUMU.UŠ-a.a ina IGI mdGAŠAN—APIN*-eš / 04 GÍN KUG.UD ša ITI-šú i-rab-bi / IGI mdMAŠ—rém-a-ni IGI mdPA—GÁL-ši / IGI mkan-da-la-ni / IGI msa-me-eʾ IGI mdPA—PAB—⸢PAB⸣ / ITI.BARAG UD 25-KÁM lim-mu mman-nu—⸢ki⸣—dIM / ša URU.ṣu-pi-te IGI mURU*—ZÁLAG*-⸢i*⸣
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335003.
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/P335003/..
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/P335003/.
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