Position in chronology
SAA 14 077. Aduni-ih’a Lends Three Homers of Wheat (660-II) (ADD 0148)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(1) 3 homers of wheat according to the Judean seah, belonging to Aduni-ih'a, at the disposal of Attar-suri, servant of Padî. (6) He shall pay it in its original amount in the month of Elul in Nineveh. (r 2) If he does not pay, it shall increase 5 seahs per homer. (r 4) Month Iyyar (II), (eponym year of) Gir-Ṣapunu. (r 5) Witness Abi-ummi. (r 6) Witness Issar-tazi. (e. 1) Witness Bir-Šamaš. (e. 2) 2 harvesters.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
03 ANŠE ŠE.GIG o* / ina GIŠ.BÁN ša* KUR.ia-ú-di / ša ma-du-ni—iḫ*-a* / ina IGI ma-tar—su-ri / ARAD* ša mpa-di-i / ina ITI.KIN a-na SAG.DU-šá / ina URU.ni-nu-a SUM-an / šúm-mu* là SUM-ni / a-na 01* ANŠE 5(bán) GAL-a* / ITI.GUD mgi-ri—ṣa-pu-ni / IGI ma-bi—um-me / IGI m15—ta-a-zi / IGI mbir—dšá-maš / 02 LÚ.ŠE.KIN.KUD
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335099.
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/P335099/..
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/P335099/.
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