Position in chronology
SAA 06 235. Note of Silver Owed to Silim-Aššur (671-VIII-29) (ADD 0041)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) Seal of Zabinâ. (2) One mina of silver by the mina of Carchemish, first fruits of Ištar of Arbela belonging to Silim-Aššur, at his disposal. (blank seal space) (5) He shall pay 1 1/2 minas of silver in Adar (XII). (6) If he does not, it will increase by 2 shekels per mina each month. (8) Month Marchesvan (VIII), 29th day, eponym year of Kanunayu. (9) Witness Sin-šarru-uṣur, chariot driver. (r 1) Witness Abdunu, horse trainer of the king. (r 2) Witness Ahu-eriba, ditto. (r 3) Witness Aššur-na'id. (r 4) Witness Issar-šumu-iddina, scribe.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB mza-bi-na-a / 01 MA.NA KUG.UD ina 01 MA.NA šá KUR.gar-gá*-mis / SAG-MEŠ šá d15 šá URU.arba-ìl / ša msi-lim—aš-šur ina IGI-MEŠ-šú / ina ITI.ŠE 01 1/2 MA.NA KUG.UD i-dan / BE-ma la SUM-ni 02 GÍN-MEŠ / a-na 01 MA.NA šá ITI-šú i-rab-bi / ITI.APIN UD 29*-KÁM lim-mu mITI.AB-a.a / IGI md30—MAN—PAB LÚ.DIB—KUŠ.PA-MEŠ / IGI mab-du-nu LÚ.GIŠ.GIGIR LUGAL / IGI mPAB—SU LÚ.:. <(GIŠ.GIGIR)> LUGAL / IGI maš-šur—I / IGI md15—MU—AŠ LÚ.A.BA
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P334993.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) ? — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334993). 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/P334993/.
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