SAA 14 025. Luqu Lends Silver (*648) (ADD 0111)

~655 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P335062

Translation · reference

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(1) [x mi]nas of silver [belonging to] Luqu, [at the disposal] of Dannî. (4) It shall increase [by a four]th. (5) [Month ...], 4(th) day, [eponym year of] Belš[unu]. (r 1) [Witness Na]bû-[...]. (r 2) [Witness ...]ayu. (r 3) [Witness Qu]rdi-Adad. (r 4) [Witness Š]umma-Ya'u. (r 5) [Witness] La-teggi-ana-Issar.

Source: Mattila, R. 2002. Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part II: Assurbanipal through Sin-šarru-iškun. SAA 14. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa14/P335062/

Why it matters

Transliteration

[x x x MA].NA KUG.UD / [ša m]lu*-qí / [ina IGI m]dan*-ni-i / [a-na 04]-⸢tú*⸣ GAL / [ITI.x] UD 04 o* / [lim-mu m]EN-⸢šú?⸣-[nu] / [IGI md]⸢AG*—x⸣ / [IGI mx-x]-a.a / [IGI m]⸢qur*⸣-di—10 / [IGI m]⸢šum*⸣-ma—ia-u* / [IGI m]la—te-gi—ana—15

Scholarly note

Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335062.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335062). source
Translation excerpted from Mattila, R. 2002. Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part II: Assurbanipal through Sin-šarru-iškun. SAA 14. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa14/P335062/.

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