SAA 06 281. Fragment of a Debt-Note (673-XIIa-21) (ADD 0053)

~700 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P335005

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 6

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(Beginning destroyed) (1) and [......], at the disposal of Diddî, [...]. (3) [He shall pay] on the new moon of the month [...]. If he does not pay (then), he shall pay double. (5) Month Adar Sheni (XII/2), 21st day, eponym year of Atar-il. (6) Witness Ahu-duri. Witness Nabû-šarru-uṣur. (7) Witness Šumma-Adad. Witness Ahu-illika.

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

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Transliteration

ù du ⸢du x⸣+[x x x x x x x x] / ina IGI mdi-di-⸢i⸣ [x x x x x x] / ina SAG.DU DINGIR GIBIL ⸢šá ITI*⸣.[x id-dan] / šum-ma la id-din e-ṣi-ip / ITI.DIRI.ŠE UD 21-KÁM lim-mu mat-ri—DINGIR / IGI mPAB—BÀD IGI mdPA—LUGAL—PAB / IGI mBE-ma—dIM IGI mPAB—DU-ka*

Scholarly note

Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335005.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Sippar-Yahrurum (mod. Tell Abu Habbah) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335005). 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/P335005/.

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