Position in chronology
SAA 06 293. Inner Tablet of the Previous Text (669-VII-13) (ADD 0103)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) 10 shekels of silver, capital [be]longing to Edu-šallim, are at the disposal of Eriba-Adad from Supuri-eddete. (5) He shall give Ahassunu, his ma[id, for the money] in Sivan (III). (b.e. 7) [I]f he does not give his gi[r]l, he shall increase the silver by 1/2 shekel (and) pay it. (r 4) If he pays it, the whole [...] ... (r.e. 6) Mo[nth Tishri] (VII), 23rd [day, eponym year of] Šamaš-kašid-ayabi. (r.e. 8) Witness Mannu-ki-Libbali. (e. 1) [Witness ...s]unu.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
10 GÍN KUG.UD SAG.DU / ⸢ša⸣ mDIL—⸢šal⸣-lim / ⸢ina⸣ IGI mSU—dIM / ša URU.⸢su⸣-pu-ri—e-de-te / ⸢MÍ⸣.NIN*-⸢su⸣-nu ⸢GÉME?⸣-su / ina ITI.SIG₄ [ina kas-pi] ⸢i-dan⸣ / ⸢šúm*⸣-mu ⸢MÍ*.TUR*⸣-su / la i-di-na / KUG.UD a-na 1/2 GÍN-šú / ú-ra-ba i-dan.an / ⸢šúm⸣-mu i-ti-din / [x x x] ⸢gab*⸣-bu-ma ⸢x x⸣ / ⸢ITI⸣.[DUL UD] 23-KÁM / [lim]-⸢me*⸣ mdUTU—KUR—a.a-bi / IGI mman-nu—ki—ŠÀ—URU / [IGI mx]-⸢su⸣-nu
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335055.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335055). 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/P335055/.
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