Position in chronology
SAA 06 178. Sailu Pays Off His Debts to Šamaš-ila'i (683-III-7) (ADD 0155)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) 4 minas of silver, debts (owed) to Šamaš-ilayu by Sa'ilu — Sa'ilu has paid them in full to Šamaš-ila'i. (6) They are mutually paid off. Neither shall litigate against the other. (r 2) Month Sivan (III), 7th day, eponym year of Mannu-ki-Adad. (r 4) Witness Sa'eru. (r 5) Witness Dadî. (r.e. 6) Witness Remut-Babu.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
04 MA.NA KUG.UD ḫa-bu-li / ša mdUTU—DINGIR-a.a / ša ina UGU msa-i-li / msa-i-lu a-na mdUTU—DINGIR-a.a / ú-sa-lim it-ti-din / ú-ṭu-ru TAv IGI a-ḫe-iš / mám-ma TAv mám-ma la i-da-bu-bu / ITI.SIG₄ UD 07-KÁM / lim-mu mman-nu—ki—10 / IGI msa-e-ru / IGI mU.U*-i / IGI mrém-ut—dBA.⸢Ú⸣
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335106.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335106). 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/P335106/.
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