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SAA 06 036. Šumma-ilani Loans Silver for 50 Percent Interest (695-I-12) (ADD 0034)
Translation · reference
High confidence(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.
Source: 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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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: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P334986). source
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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