Position in chronology
SAA 14 170. Silver Loan (*617-XII-14) (Iraq 32 17)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(1) ...[...] 4 shekels of silver belonging to [NN], at the disposal of Hi[...], son of Nabû-sakip. (5) He has taken it as a loan. (6) The silver shall increase by a fourth. (r 1) Month Adar (XII), 14th day, [eponym year of Aššur-r]emanni, [chief eunu]ch of the crown prince. (r 4) Witness Na[...]. (r 5) Witness Ur[da-...], scribe. (r 6) Witness [NN]. (r 7) Witness [...]ayu. (e. 1) [Witne]ss Issar-..., (e. 2) [Witne]ss Ahhutu-hidi.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
GAR UD [x x x]+⸢x⸣ 04 ⸢GÍN⸣ KUG.UD / ša m[x x x x] / ina IGI mḫi-[x x x]+⸢x⸣ / A mdPA—sa-⸢kip⸣ / ina pu-u-ḫi it-ti-ši / KUG.UD a-na 04-ut-ti-šú / i-⸢rab⸣-bi / ⸢ITI.ŠE⸣ UD 14?-KÁM / [lim-me maš-šur]—⸢rém⸣-a-ni / [LÚ.GAL]—⸢SAG⸣ A—MAN / ⸢IGI mna⸣-[x x x]+⸢x⸣ / IGI m⸢ARAD?⸣—[x x] ⸢A.BA?⸣ / IGI md⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] / IGI md⸢x⸣+[x (x) x]+⸢x⸣-a.a / ⸢IGI⸣ md15—x ⸢x⸣ / ⸢IGI⸣ mPAB?-u-tú—ḫi-di?
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P336203.
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/P336203/..
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/P336203/.
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