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SAA 06 262. Sangu-Issar Loans Silver (680-VII-21) (ADD 0026)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Seal of Aduna-izzi. (2) One mina of silver by the (mina) of Carchemish, belonging to Sangû-Issar, at the disposal of Aduna-izzi, candy peddler. (5) It will increase by a fourth. (6) Month Tishri (VII), 21st day, eponym year of Dananu. (r 1) Witness Arbailayu. (r 2) Witness Nabû-bani-ahhe. (r 3) Witness Surarate. (r 4) Witness Ahabu. (r 5) Witness Sagab. (r 6) Witness Ubru-Nabû.
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/P334978/
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Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB ma-du-na—i-zi / 01 MA.NA KUG.UD ina ša URU.gar-ga-mis / ša mSANGA—d15 / ina IGI ma-du-na—iz LÚv.šá—mut-qi-ti-šú / a-na 04-ut-ti-šú i-GAL-bi / ITI.DUL UD 21-KÁM / lim-me mda-na-nu / IGI mURU.arba-ìl-a.a / IGI mdPA—DÙ—PAB-MEŠ / IGI msu-ra-ra-te / IGI mPAB—a-bi / IGI msa-gab / IGI mSUḪUŠ—dPA
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P334978.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Theodore Kwasman and Simo Parpola , Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part I: Tiglath-Pileser III through Esarhaddon (State Archives of Assyria, 6), 1991. Lemmatised by Melanie Groß, 2010–2011, as part of the FWF-funded research project "Royal Institutional Households in First Millennium BC Mesopotamia" (S 10802-G18) directed by Heather D. Baker at the University of Vienna. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P334978/..
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/P334978/.
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