Position in chronology
SAA 14 110. Urdu-Aya Lends Ten Shekels of Silver (*636-II-2) (ADD 0002)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(1) 10 shekels of silver belonging to Urdu-Aya, at the disposal of Qiti-muti. (4) He has taken it as a loan. It shall increase by by a fourth. (6) Month Iyyar (II), 2nd day, eponym year of Sin-šarru-uṣur. (r 1) Witness Aššur-ahu-uṣur. (r 2) Witness Issar-nadin-apli. (r 3) Witness Nuhšaya. (r 4) Witness Nur-Šamaš. (r 5) Witness Kusayu.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
10 GÍN-MEŠ KUG.UD / ša mARAD-a.a / ina IGI mqí-ti—BE* / ina pu-u-ḫi i-ti-ši / ina 04-ut-ti-šú GAL-bi / ITI.GUD UD 02-KÁM / lim-mu m30—MAN—u-zu-ur / IGI maš-šur—PAB—PAB / IGI m15—SUM—A / IGI mḪÉ.NUN-a.a / IGI mZÁLAG—dšá-maš / IGI mku*-sa-a.a
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P334954.
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/P334954/..
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/P334954/.
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