Position in chronology
SAA 06 137. A Copper Loan with a Pledge of Land (693) (ADD 1177)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) [x mi]nas of copper belonging to Urdâ, a[t the disposal] of Mannu-ki-Issar. (2) An estate of 1 hectare 5 decares (of land), an estate of 1 hectare 5 decares on top of the (river) bank, an estate of x[...], and an estate of 1 hectare of plowed (field) on the wadi (space for seal impressions) (Break) (r 1) [Witness ...]-naṣir. Witness [NN]. (r 2) [Witness] Šumma-ila'i. Wit[ne]ss Zeru[...]. (r 3) [Witness Il]-madi. Witness Urdû. (Witness) Didi. (r 4) [Witness ...]qurâ. Witness Tikala. (r 5) [Witness Ab]u-eriba. Witness Nabû-šumu-lešir, sc[ribe]. (r 6) [Month ..., ...th day], eponym year of Iddin-ahhe.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[x MA].NA URUDU-MEŠ ša mur-da-a / [ina IGI m]man-nu—ki-i—d15 É 01 ANŠE ⸢5(bán)?⸣ / ⸢É*⸣ 01 ANŠE 5(bán) ina SAG* ka-pi É ⸢x⸣+[x] / ⸢É*⸣ 01 ANŠE ku-ri-bat* ina UGU na-[ḫal-li] / [IGI mx]+⸢x⸣—PAB IGI [mx x x x x x] / [IGI m]šum-mu—DINGIR-a.a ⸢IGI⸣ m*NUMUN-[x x x] / [IGI mx]—ma*-di* IGI mur*-du* <IGI*> mdi*-di* / [IGI mx]-qu-ra-a IGI mti*-ka-la / [IGI m]⸢AD*⸣—SU IGI mdPA—MU—GIŠ LÚ.A.[BA] / [ITI.x UD-x]+⸢x⸣ lim-me mSUM-na—PAB-⸢MEŠ*⸣
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335958.
Attribution
Image: BM 099119 (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335958). 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/P335958/.
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