Position in chronology
SAA 06 234. Note of Silver Owed to Silim-Aššur (672-III-29) (ADD 0015)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) 3 minas 30 shekels of silver by the mina of Carchemish, belonging to Silim-Aššur, at the disposal of Marduk-eriba. (5) He shall pay the silver back on the 1st of Ab (V). If he does not, it shall increase 50 percent per shekel. (r 1) Witness Kadammu. (r 2) Witness Nabû-zeru-ibni. (r 3) Witness Bel-iddina. (r 4) Witness Aplu-uṣur. (r 5) Witness Tabalayu. (t.e. 6) Month of Sivan (III), 29th day, eponym year of Nabû-belu-uṣur.
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/P334967/
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Transliteration
03 MA.NA 30 GÍN-MEŠ KUG.UD o* / ina 01 MA.NA ša URU.gar-ga-mis / ša msi-lim—aš-šur / pa-an mdŠÚ—SU / ITI.NE UD 01-KÁM KUG.UD i-dan / šúm-ma la id-din / a-na 1/2 GÍN-šú GAL-bi / IGI mka-da-mu / IGI mdPA—NUMUN—DÙ / IGI mEN—AŠ / IGI mDUMU.UŠ—PAB / IGI mtab-URU-a.a / ina* ITI.SIG₄ UD 29-KÁM / lim-me mdPA—EN—PAB
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P334967.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P334967). 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/P334967/.
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