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SAA 06 070. Bahianu Loans 4 Homers of Barley (686-VI-29) (ADD 0134)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Two homers of barley — Nabû-nuru-nammir; (3) one ditto — La-tubašanni-ilu; (4) one ditto — Ṣabutanu; (5) (barley) belonging to Bahianu, at their disposal. (7) They have taken it as a loan. (r 1) Month Elul (VI), 29th day, (r 2) eponym year of Bel-emuranni, commander-in-chief.
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/P335085/
Why it matters
Transliteration
02 ANŠE ŠE.PAD-MEŠ / mdPA—ZÁLAG—nam-mir / 01 :. mla—TÉŠ-a-ni—DINGIR / 01 :. mṣab-ta-a-nu / ša mba-ḫi-a-ni / ina pa-ni-šú-nu / ina pu-u-ḫi it-ta-ṣu / ITI.KIN UD 29-KÁM / lim-mu mEN—IGI-a-ni / LÚv.tur-tan-nu
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335085.
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/P335085/..
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/P335085/.
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