Position in chronology
SAA 06 223. Note of Silver Owed to Silim-Aššur (679-III-12) (ADD 0083)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) One mina of silver (by the mina) of Carchemish belonging to Silim-Aššur, at the disposal of Urda-Issar. (4) In lieu of the interest on the silver, Silim-Aššur shall take an estate of 6 hectares of land of his choice in the town of Hatâ, according to the seah of 10 'litres,' and shall have the usufruct of it for years. He shall enjoy it for 4 crop years and 4 fallow years. (r 1) (After) he has completed his cultivation, he (i.e., Urda-Issar) shall place the capital sum of the silver on the corn heap and redeem his land. (r 3) Four hectares of cultivated (and) 2 hectares of fallow (land), a…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
01 MA.NA KUG.UD ša URU.gar-ga-mis / ša msi-lim—aš-šur / ina IGI mARAD—15 / ⸢ku-um ru-bé-e ša KUG.UD⸣ / É 06 ANŠE A.ŠÀ ina URU.ḫa-ta-a / ina GIŠ.BÁN ša 10 qa É msi-lim—aš-šur / IGI.2-MEŠ i-šak-kan-u-ni i-na-áš-ši / a-na MU.AN.NA-MEŠ KÚ / 04 me-re-še 04 kar-ap-ḫi / KÚ me-re-še-šu ú-sal-lim / SAG.DU KUG.UD ina UGU ŠE.ta-ra-me / i-šak-kan A.ŠÀ-šú ú-še-ṣa 04 ANŠE me!-re!-še! / 02 ANŠE kar-ap-ḫi PAB 06…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335035.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335035). 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/P335035/.
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