Position in chronology
SAA 06 232. Note of 5 Homers of Wine Owed to Silim-Aššur (675-XII-5) (ADD 0124)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) 5 homers of wine according to the royal 'litre,' belonging to Silim-Aššur, at the disposal of Ubru-Harran. (4) He shall give it back on the first day of Nisan (I). If he does not, he shall pay the wine (in silver) according to the market price of Nineveh. (r 1) Witness Nušku-ila'i. (r 2) Witness Gurrayu. (r 3) Witness Nabû-šarru-uṣur. (r 4) Witness Ahu-duri. (r 5) Witness Uburutu. (r 6) Month Adar (XII), 5th day, eponym year of Nabû-ahhe-iddina.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
05 ANŠE GEŠTIN-MEŠ / ina 01 qa ša MAN ša msi-lim—aš-šur / ina IGI mSUḪUŠ—URU.KASKAL / ina UD 01-KAM šá ITI.BARAG / i-dan BE-ma la i-din / GEŠTIN-MEŠ a-ki ma-ḫi-ri / ša URU.NINA.KI SUM-an / IGI mdPA.TÚG—DINGIR-a.a / IGI mgur-ra-a.a / IGI mdPA—MAN—PAB / IGI mPAB—BÀD / IGI mú-bu-⸢ru⸣-u-te / ITI.ŠE UD 05-KAM / lim-mu mdPA—PAB-MEŠ—AŠ
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335075.
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/P335075/..
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/P335075/.
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