Position in chronology
SAA 06 150. Dummuqa is Owed 5 1/2 Minas of Silver by 6 Men (688-XII-25) (ADD 0017)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) 5 1/2 minas of silver belonging to Dummuqâ, at the disposal of Balassu the (royal) delegate, Ṣillâ, Abi-ken, Nabû-šezib, Adi-il, and Yakê. (5) They shall pay in Iyyar (II). If they do not pay, it shall increase by one m[ina] 5 shekels per month. (8) Witness Barruqu. (9) Witness Ahu-lešir. (r 1) Witness Šulmu-šarri. (r 2) Witness Addi-idri. (r 3) Witness Mannu-ki-Arbail. (r 4) Month Adar (XII), 25th day, eponym year of Iddin-ahhe.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
05 MA.NA 1/2 MA.NA KUG.UD šá mdu-mu-qa-a / ina IGI mba-la-su LÚ.qe-e-pi / ina IGI mṣi-la-a ina IGI mAD—GI.NA* / ina IGI mdPA—še-zib ina IGI m⸢a*⸣-di—DINGIR / ina IGI mia-a-ke-e ina ITI.⸢GUD* id⸣-du-nu / šum-ma la id-din-nu-ni 01 ⸢MA.NA⸣ 05 GÍN-MEŠ / ša ITI-šu i-ra-ab-bi / IGI mbar-ruq-qu / IGI mPAB—SI.⸢SÁ⸣ / IGI mDI-mu—LUGAL / IGI mad-di—id-ri / IGI mman-nu—ki-i—arba-ìl.KI / ITI.ŠE UD 25-KÁM lim-mu 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 P334969.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Sippar-Yahrurum (mod. Tell Abu Habbah) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334969). 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/P334969/.
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