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ARu 16 (P282432)
Middle Assyrian, Assur · c. 1400 BCE–1000 BCE
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| Designation | ARu 16 |
|---|---|
| ID | P282432 |
| Museum no. | VAT 08873! |
| Collection | Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Middle Assyrian · c. 1400 BCE–1000 BCE |
| Find spot | Assur (mod. Qalat Sherqat) |
| Coordinates | 35.4557, 43.2611 |
Transliteration (ATF)
From Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618)
Machine draft. The right-hand column is machine English from ixmon/atf-to-english (atf-en-t5base-F, 2026-10-17), generated line by line from the transliteration. It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1 | 2 1/2 MA.NA KU₃.BABBAR | 2 1/2 minas of silver |
| 2 | ṭe₂-ri NA₄ E₂ a-li₃ | ... stone of the city hall |
| 3 | KI in-ni-bi DUMU {d}UTU-GAL | from Innibu son of Šamaš-rabi |
| 4 | {m}i-di₂-EN DUMU {d}UTU-GAL | Iddi-Bel, son of Šamaš-rabi; |
| 5 | u₃ še-e-a DUMU {d}EN{ti}na-ṣir | and Šēya son of Bel-nasbir |
| 6 | ŠU.BA.AN.TI a-na 12 ITI{hi} | Received for 12 months. |
| 7 | SAG.DU KU₃.BABBAR I₃.LA₂.E | He will pay the capital of the silver. |
| 8 | e-da-nu e-ti-iq-ma | (If) the term has passed |
| 9 | KU₃.BABBAR a-na MAŠ₂ DU | The silver will go against interest. |
| b.e. | ||
| 10 | i+na UGU šal-mi-šu-nu | on their behalf |
| 11 | u₃ ke-ni-šu-nu | and their trust |
| 12 | KU₃.BABBAR ra-ki-is | The silver is repaid. |
| r | ||
| 13 | ka-tu KU₃.BABBAR A.ŠA₃-MEŠ-šu-nu | The surety of the silver are their fields. |
| 14 | u₃ E₂-MEŠ-šu-nu | and their houses |
| 15 | i+na bi-ri-šu-nu KIŠIB {m}EN-PAP | in between them. Seal of Bel-nāṣir. |
| 16 | ta-ar-ṣu-ma KU₃.BABBAR u₂-ša-lam | he will redeem and pay back the silver. |
| 17 | IGI EN-na-ṣir DUMU nir-bi-a | Witnessed by Bēl-nasbir son of Nirbia. |
| 18 | IGI ur-ru-ga-mil | Witness Urru-gamil. |
| 19 | DUMU ni-mar-{d}taš-me-ti | son of Nimar-Tašmeti, |
| 20 | [IGI] e-mu-qa-{d}IŠKUR | Witness: Emuqa-Adad |
| 21 | DUMU u₂-qa-mu-ra-ni | son of Uqamuranni, |
| 22 | IGI ID₂{id}ŠA₃-{d}a-šur DUB.SAR | before Šūzub-Assur the scribe. |
| 23 | DUMU ur-ru-ga-mil | son of Urru-gamil, |
| 24 | {iti}ša-ke-na-ti U₄ 1KAM₂ li-mu | Month Ša-kēnati, 1st day, eponymy of |
| t.e. | ||
| 25 | {d}EN.TI-na-ṣir DUMU LU₂-ia | Sîn-nāṣir, son of Apliya |
| 26 | KIŠIB {m}še-e-a KIŠIB {m}ur-ru-ga-mil | Seal of Šēa, seal of Urru-gamil. |
Sources & licences
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