Position in chronology
SAA 14 106. Qidri Lends Eight Shekels of Silver (*638-II-11) (ADD 0016)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(1) 8 shekels of silver belonging to Qidrî, at the disposal of Dadî, son of Nergal-naṣir. (5) He shall pay in the month of Sivan (III), on the 1st day. (7) If he does not pay, the silver shall increase 50 percent per shekel. (r 2) Month Iyyar (II), 11th day, eponym year of Aššur-gimilli-tere. (r 4) Witness Remut-ilani. (r 5) Witness Sukki-Aya. (r 6) Witness Aššur-šarru-uṣur. (r.e. 7) Witness Hubašate.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
08 GÍN o* KUG.UD / ša mqi-id-ri-i / ina IGI mU*.U*-i / A mdU.GUR—PAB-ir / UD 01-KÁM šá ITI.SIG₄ / KUG.UD SUM-an / BE-ma NU SUM-ni / a-na 1/2 GÍN-šú GAL / ITI.GUD UD 11-KÁM / lim-mu maš-šur—ŠU—GUR / IGI mrém-ut—DINGIR-MEŠ / IGI mTE-a.a / IGI maš-šur—MAN—PAB / IGI mḫu-ba-šá-a-te
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P334968.
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/P334968/..
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/P334968/.
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