Position in chronology
SAA 06 043. Šumma-ilani Loans Three Minas of Silver (684-I-10) (ADD 0019)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) 3 minas and 10 shekels of sil[ver] belonging to Šumma-ilani, at the disposal of Bel-ašared. (4) It shall increase by a fourth. (5) Witness Sin-zeru-ibni, 'third man.' (6) Witness Nabû-ahu-uṣur, royal bodyguard. (7) Witness Misu, scribe. (8) Witness Milkaya. (9) Witness Nabû-le'ani, 'third man.' (10) Month Nisan (I), 10th day, eponym year of Manzarnê.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
03* MA.NA 10 GÍN KUG.⸢UD⸣ / ša mšum-mu*—DINGIR-MEŠ-ni / ina IGI mEN—SAG.KAL / a-na 04-tú-šú i-rab-⸢bi⸣ / IGI md30—NUMUN—DÙ 03-šú / IGI mdPA—PAB—PAB LÚv.qur-bu-ti / IGI mme-i-su LÚv.A.BA / IGI mmil-ka-a.a / IGI mdPA—ZU-a-ni 03-šú / ITI.BARAG UD 10-KÁM / lim-me mman-za-ár-né-e
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P334971.
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/P334971/..
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/P334971/.
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