SAA 06 136. Aššur-ibni Loans Barley (694) (ADD 0140)

~700 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P335091

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 6

High confidence

(1) 1 homer of barley, cap[ital belonging to] Aššur-ibn[i ...]. (cylinder seal impression) (Break) (cylinder seal impression) (r 1) eponym year of Ilu-isse'a.

State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).

Transliteration

01 ANŠE ŠE.PAD-MEŠ ⸢SAG⸣.[DU šá] / maš-šur—ib-⸢ni⸣ [x x] / lim-mu mDINGIR—KI-⸢ia⸣

Scholarly note

Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335091.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335091). 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/P335091/.

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