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SAA 06 216. Mannu-ki-Arbail Loans Silver to Ahuni (673-II-1) (ADD 0008)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [Se]al of Ahuni of Kar-Mullissu. (2) 20 shekels of silver belonging to Mannu-ki-Arbail, at the disposal of Ahuni. (5) He shall pay the silver in its principal amount in Iyyar, within the month of Iyyar (II). If he does not pay, it will increase by a fourth. (7) Iyyar (II), 1st day, eponym year of Atar-il, governor of Lahiru. (9) Witness Melezaza. (10) Witness Nabû-eṭiranni. (Rest destroyed)
Source: 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/P334960/
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Transliteration
⸢NA₄*⸣.KIŠIB ma-ḫu-⸢ni⸣ / ša URU.kar—dNIN.LÍL 20 GÍN-MEŠ KUG.UD / ša mman-nu—ki-i—URU.arba-ìl / ina IGI ma-ḫu-ni / ina ITI.GUD ina ŠÀ-bi ITI.GUD KUG.UD ina ⸢SAG.DU⸣-šú / SUM-an BE-ma [la] SUM-ni* ina 04-tú-šú GAL-bi / ina ITI.GUD UD 01-KÁM lim-mu ma-tar—DINGIR / LÚ.EN.NAM KUR.la-ḫi-ra / IGI mme-le-za-za / IGI mdPA—⸢KAR⸣-[ir]-⸢an⸣-[ni]
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P334960.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P334960). 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/P334960/.
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