Position in chronology
SAA 14 158. Ululayu and Apladad-na’di Lend Silver (*626-III) (ADD 0022)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(1) 15 shekels of silver belonging to Ululayu and belonging to Apladad-na'di, at the disposal of Sanṣuri, son of Sin-na'id. (r 1) It shall increase by a fourth. (r 2) Month Sivan (III), eponym year of Marduk-remanni, governor of Kilizi. (r 5) Witness Qiti-ilani. (r 6) Witness Saka-il. (r 7) Witness Nanî. (r 8) Witness Šumma-ila'i.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
15 GÍN-MEŠ KUG.UD / ša mITI.KIN-a.a / ša md*A.10—na*-aʾ-di / ina IGI mṣa-an-ṣu-ru / A m30—I / ina 04-tú-šú GAL-bi / ITI.SIG₄ lim-mu / [m]⸢d⸣KU—rém-a-ni / ⸢LÚv⸣.GAR.KUR URU.kàl-zi / IGI mqi*-ti—DINGIR-MEŠ / IGI msa-ka-a—DINGIR / IGI mna*-ni-i / IGI mBE—DINGIR-a.a
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P334974.
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/P334974/..
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/P334974/.
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