Position in chronology
SAA 06 036. Šumma-ilani Loans Silver for 50 Percent Interest (695-I-12) (ADD 0034)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) 30 shekels of silver, capital, belonging to Šumma-ilani, at the disposal of Aššur-isse'a. (4) The silver shall increase by 50 percent per shekel. (5) Witness Zarutî, chariot driver of the chief cook. (7) Witness Arbailayu, 'third man.' (8) Witness Hašanu, intelligence officer of the governor. (r 2) Witness Pišarmu, recruitment officer of ditto. (r 4) Witness Il-qatar, royal bodyguard. (r 5) Month Nisan (I), 12th day, eponym year of Aššur-belu-uṣur.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
30 GÍN-MEŠ KUG.UD SAG.DU / ša mšum-ma—DINGIR-MEŠ-ni / ina IGI maš-šur—KI-ia / KUG.UD-MEŠ a-na 1/2 GÍN-šú i-rab-bi / IGI mza-ru-ti-i / LÚv.mu-kil—PA-MEŠ ša LÚv.GAL—MU* / IGI mURU.arba-ìl-a.a LÚv*.03!-šú* / IGI mḫa-šá-na / LÚv.mu-tir—ṭè-me / ša LÚv.GAR / IGI mpi-ša-ar-mu / LÚv.mu-šar-kis :. / IGI mDINGIR—qa-tar LÚv.⸢qur⸣-bu-tú* / ITI.BARAG UD 12*-KÁM / lim-mu maš-šur—EN—PAB
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P334986.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Theodore Kwasman and Simo Parpola , Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part I: Tiglath-Pileser III through Esarhaddon (State Archives of Assyria, 6), 1991. 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/P334986/..
Translation excerpted from Kwasman, T. & Parpola, S. 1991. Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part I: Tiglath-Pileser III through Esarhaddon. SAA 6. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa06/P334986/.
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