Position in chronology
SAA 06 158. A Futures Contract in Wine (687-IX-3) (ADD 0125)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Q[urb]u-abu'a shall repay [x shekels of silver] of Carchemish to Bel-ahhe with 9 homers of wine, by the seah of 9 'litres,' in Bit-Zamani. (6) [I]f he does not, he shall pay according to the market price [of] Nineveh. (r 1) Witness Ribaya. (r 2) Witness Batiti, architect. (r 3) Witness Šep-Aššur. (r 4) Witness Ubbuku. (r 5) Witness Mannu-ki-Ninua. (r 6) Witness Nabû-bel-ilani. (r 7) Month Kislev (IX), 3rd day, [eponym year of] Sennacherib.
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/P335076/
Why it matters
Transliteration
[x x x]-MEŠ ša KUR.gar-ga-mis / ⸢m*qur?-bu*⸣—AD-u-a / a-na mEN—PAB-MEŠ ina ŠÀ-bi / 09 ANŠE GEŠTIN-MEŠ ina ⸢GIŠ⸣.BÁN ša 09 qa / ina KUR.É—za-ma-a-ni SUM-na / [šum]-ma la SUM-ni a-ki ma-ḫi-ri / [šá] ⸢URU⸣.NINA SUM-⸢an*⸣ / IGI mri-ba-a.a / IGI mba-ti-i-ti / LÚ.še-la-pa-a.a IGI mGÌR.2—aš-šur / IGI mú-bu-ku / IGI mman-nu—ki—URU.NINA / IGI mdPA—EN—DINGIR-MEŠ / ITI.GAN UD 03-KÁM / [lim-me] md30—PAB-MEŠ—SU
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335076.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335076). 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/P335076/.
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