Position in chronology
SAA 06 206. Note of a Mule Owed to Mannu-ki-Arbail (679-XI-15) (ADD 0150)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) A good mule belonging to Mannu-ki-Arbail, at the disposal of Pilaqqi-lipirê. (4) Urdâ is the guarantor. (5) He shall give it back in Iyyar (III). (6) [If he does n]ot, he shall pay 30 minas of silver to the king. (r 1) Month Shebat (XI), 15th day, eponym year of Issi-Adad-aninu. (r 4) Witness Arzezu, cohort commander. (r 5) Witness Mamî, ditto. (r 6) [Witness] Habasti, head porter. (r 7) [Witness K]ubabu-ila'i. (r 8) [Witness] Abilurê. (r 9) Witness Aššur-ila'i.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
o* ANŠE.GÍR*.NUN.NA SIG / ša mman-nu—GIM—URU.arba-ìl / ina IGI mGIŠ.BAL—li-pi-re*-e / mur-da-a EN—ŠU.2-MEŠ / ina ITI.GUD SUM-an / [šum-ma] ⸢la⸣ SUM-an / ⸢30?⸣ MA.NA KUG.UD / a-na LUGAL SUM-an / ITI.ZÍZ UD 15-⸢KÁM⸣ / lim-mu mTA—dIM—a-ni-nu / IGI mar-ze-zu LÚv.GAL*—ki*-ṣir* / IGI mma-mì-i LÚ.: <(GAL—ki-ṣir)> / [IGI m]ḫa—ba-sa-tú LÚv.GAL—Ì.DU₈-MEŠ / [IGI m]⸢kù*⸣-ba-bu—DINGIR-a.a / [IGI] ma-⸢bi⸣-lu-re-e / IGI maš-šur—DINGIR-a.a
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335101.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Sippar-Yahrurum (mod. Tell Abu Habbah) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335101). 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/P335101/.
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