Position in chronology
SAA 06 072. A Barley Loan Paid Back to Bahianu (685-VII) (ADD 0135)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) One homer — Ṣabutanu, (2) one ditto — La-tubašanni-i[lu], (3) a total of two ditto of barley; (4) they have paid it in full to Bahianu. (r 1) Nabû-nuru-nammir has not paid. (r 3) Month Tishri (VII), eponym year of Aššur-da''inanni.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
01 ANŠE mṣa-bu-ta-a-nu / 01 : mla—tu-ba-šá-a-ni—⸢DINGIR⸣ / PAB 02 : ŠE.PAD-MEŠ / a-na mba-ḫi-a-ni / ú-sa-li-mu / mdPA—ZÁLAG—nam-mir / la ú-šal-lim / ITI.DU₆* o* / lim-mu maš-šur—KALAG-in-a-ni
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P393825.
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/P393825/..
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/P393825/.
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