Position in chronology
SAA 14 033. Kiṣir-Aššur Lends One Mina 30 Shekels of Silver (ADD 0080)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(1) One mina 30 shekels of silver belonging to Kiṣir-Aššur, (3) at the disposal of Qat-Aššur-aṣbat, son of Issar-na'id, (4) at the disposal of Susu, son of Lu-šakin. (5) They shall make a 16 (x) long raft and give (it) instead (of the silver) in the month of Iyyar (II). (7) If they do not pay, it shall increase by a fourth. (r 1) Ibašši-ilani is the guarantor. (r 2) Month Tebet (X), 22nd day, eponym year of Aššur-[...]. (r 3) Witness Abi-lešir, [...]. (r 4) Witness Mardû. (r 5) Witness Abi-[...]. (r.e. 6) Witness Nabû'a. (e. 1) Witness Ilu-iṣṣur.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
01 MA* 30 GÍN-MEŠ KUG.UD / ša mki-ṣir—aš-šur / ina IGI mŠU.2—aš-šur—DIB DUMU m15—⸢I*⸣ / ina IGI msu-u-su A mlu—GAR o* / KUŠ.maš-kur₄ ša 16* GÍD.DA / e-pu-šú ina ku-me ina* ITI.GUD o* / SUM-nu BE-ma la SUM-nu / ina 04-tú-šú GAL-[bi] / mÌ.GÁL—DINGIR-MEŠ EN—ŠU.2-[MEŠ] o* / ITI.AB UD 22 lim-me m⸢aš-šur⸣—[x x] / IGI mAD—GIŠ LÚv.[x x] / IGI mmar-du-[u] / IGI ma-bi-[x x] / IGI mdPA-⸢u.a⸣ / IGI mDINGIR—PAB
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335032.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Raija Mattila, Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part II: Assurbanipal Through Sin-šarru-iškun (State Archives of Assyria, 14), 2002. 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/P335032/..
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/P335032/.
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