Position in chronology
SAA 06 071. Bahianu Loans Two Homers of Barley (685-I-27) (ADD 0131)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) Two homers of barley belonging to Bahianu, at the disposal of Astaqumme. (stamp seal impression) (4) He took it as a loan. It shall increase by 3 seahs per homer. (r 1) Month Nisan (I), 27th day, (stamp seal impression) (r 2) eponym year of Aššur-da''inanni.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
02 ANŠE ŠE.PAD-MEŠ / ša mba-ḫi-a-ni / ina IGI mas-ta-qu-um-me / ina pu-u-ḫi it-ti-ši / a-na 01 :. 3(bán)-a.a / ta-rab-bi / ITI.BARAG UD 27-KÁM / lim-me maš-šur—KALAG-in—MAN
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335082.
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/P335082/..
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/P335082/.
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