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SAA 14 082. Ṭab-šar-Aššur Lends One Mina of Silver (655-VII-11) (ADD 1192)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Seal of [Aššur-iddina]. (2) One mina of silver, ca[pital], belonging to Ṭab-šar-Ašš[ur], at the disposal of Aššur-iddina. (5) The silver shall increase by a fourth. (7) Witness Nabû'a. (8) Witness Dadi-iqbi. (r 1) Witness Nabû-nadin-ahhe. (r 2) Witness Habur-Issar. (r 3) Witness Sin-na'id. (r 4) Witness Inurta-ahu-uṣur. (r 5) Witness Nabû-ahu-[...]. (r 6) Month Tishri (VII), 11t[h] day, eponym year of Au[ianu], (r.e. 8) Witness Ud[...]. (e. 1) Witness Dur-Adad.
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/P335972/
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Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB md[aš-šur—AŠ] / 01 MA.NA KUG.UD ⸢SAG?⸣.[DU] / ša mDÙG—IM—aš-⸢šur⸣ / ina IGI maš-šur—AŠ / KUG.UD a-na 04-ut-ti-šú / i-rab-bi / IGI mdPA-u-a / IGI mU.U*—iq-bi / IGI mdPA—na*-⸢din*⸣—PAB-MEŠ / IGI mḫa-bur—d15 / IGI md30—I / IGI m[d]⸢U*.GUR*⸣—PAB—PAB / IGI m⸢dPA⸣—PAB—⸢x⸣+[x] / ITI.DUL UD 11-⸢KÁM⸣ / lim-me ma-⸢ú*⸣-[ia-nu] / IGI mud-[x x x] / IGI mBÀD*—10*
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335972.
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/P335972/..
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/P335972/.
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