SAA 06 232. Note of 5 Homers of Wine Owed to Silim-Aššur (675-XII-5) (ADD 0124)

~700 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P335075

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 6

High confidence

(1) 5 homers of wine according to the royal 'litre,' belonging to Silim-Aššur, at the disposal of Ubru-Harran. (4) He shall give it back on the first day of Nisan (I). If he does not, he shall pay the wine (in silver) according to the market price of Nineveh. (r 1) Witness Nušku-ila'i. (r 2) Witness Gurrayu. (r 3) Witness Nabû-šarru-uṣur. (r 4) Witness Ahu-duri. (r 5) Witness Uburutu. (r 6) Month Adar (XII), 5th day, eponym year of Nabû-ahhe-iddina.

State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).

Transliteration

05 ANŠE GEŠTIN-MEŠ / ina 01 qa ša MAN ša msi-lim—aš-šur / ina IGI mSUḪUŠ—URU.KASKAL / ina UD 01-KAM šá ITI.BARAG / i-dan BE-ma la i-din / GEŠTIN-MEŠ a-ki ma-ḫi-ri / ša URU.NINA.KI SUM-an / IGI mdPA.TÚG—DINGIR-a.a / IGI mgur-ra-a.a / IGI mdPA—MAN—PAB / IGI mPAB—BÀD / IGI mú-bu-⸢ru⸣-u-te / ITI.ŠE UD 05-KAM / lim-mu mdPA—PAB-MEŠ—AŠ

Scholarly note

Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335075.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335075). 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/P335075/.

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