Position in chronology
SAA 06 318. Remanni-Adad Loans 10 Minas of Silver (665-X-22) (ADD 0035)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) [S]eal of Mannu-ki-ahi, deputy (governor) of Arrapha; [s]eal of Nabû-ašared. (2) 10 minas of silver, [ca]pital, by the mina of Carchemish, belonging to Remanni-Adad, chief chariot driver, (blank seal space) (5) at their disposal. They shall pay back the capital of the silver in Nisan (I). [If they do not pa]y, the silver shall increase by a fourth. (7) [Witness Barru]qu, chariot driver. (8) [Witness Sakk]annu, ditto. (9) [Witness Nabû-zeru-idd]ina, ditto. (r 1) [Witness NN], eunuch. (r 2) Witness Nabû-qati-ṣabat, eunuch. (r 3) Witness Ubru-Aššur, conscript. (r 4) Month Tebet (X), 22nd day, eponym year of Mannu-ki-šarri.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
⸢NA₄⸣.KIŠIB mman-nu—ki-i—PAB LÚ.02-u arrap*-ḫa* / ⸢NA₄⸣.KIŠIB mdPA—MAŠ 10 MA.NA KUG.UD / ⸢SAG⸣.DU ina 01 MA.NA-e šá URU.gar-ga-mis / ša mrém-an*-ni—dIM LÚ.DIB—KUŠ.PA-MEŠ dan-nu / ⸢ina IGI-šú-nu ina ITI⸣.BARAG SAG.DU KUG.UD SUM-nu / [BE-ma la] ⸢SUM⸣-nu KUG.UD a-na 04-ti-šú i-rab-bi / [IGI mbar-ru]-qu LÚ.DIB—KUŠ.PA-MEŠ / [IGI msa]-⸢kan⸣ LÚ.: <(DIB—KUŠ.PA-MEŠ)> / [IGI mdPA—NUMUN]—⸢SUM⸣-na LÚ.:…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P334987.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334987). 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/P334987/.
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