Position in chronology
SAA 14 009. Manageress of the Central City Buys a Slave (668-I-22) (ADD 0190)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(1) Seal of Ibašši-ilan[i, ...], owner of the man being so[ld]. (cylinder seal impression) (3) [L]u-šakin, servant [of] Ibašši-ilan[i] — (5) the harem m[anageress of the ce]ntral city (harem) of Nineveh [has contract]ed and [bo]ught him [for x min]as of silver by the mina [of Carchemish]. (8) The mone[y (is paid) completely]. (Break) (r 1) [Witness NN]. Witness [NN]. (r 2) [Witness NN]. Witness Nabû-[...]. (r 3) [Witness NN]. Witness Abu-duri, [...]. (r 4) [Witness Tab]ala[yu]. (r 5) [Witness ...]i. Witness Mannu-ki-Ar[bail]. (r 6) [Witness ...]-dur-beli'a. (r 7) [Witness ...]-šarru-uṣur. Witness Ramet[î]. (r 8) Witness Nabû-nammir, scribe. (r 9) Month Nisan (I), 22nd day, eponym year of Mar-larim, co[mmander-in-chief of Commagene].
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB mÌ.GÁL—DINGIR-⸢MEŠ⸣ [LÚv.x x*] / EN LÚ ⸢SUM⸣-[ni] / [m]⸢lu⸣—šá-kín ARAD-šú / [ša m]Ì.GÁL—DINGIR-MEŠ-⸢ni⸣ / [tu]-⸢piš⸣-ma MÍ.šá-⸢kin⸣-[tú] / [ša] ⸢MURUB₄⸣—URU ⸢NINA⸣.KI / [ina ŠÀ x MA].⸢NA⸣ KUG.UD ina 01 MA.NA-[e*] / [ša URU.gar-ga-mis] ⸢tal⸣-qi kas-[pu gam-mur*] / [IGI mx x x x] IGI m⸢d⸣[x x x x] / [IGI mx x x]+⸢x⸣ IGI mdPA—[x x x] / [IGI mx x x x]+⸢x⸣ IGI mAD—BÀD ⸢LÚv⸣.[x x x] / [IGI…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335139.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) ? — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335139). source
Translation excerpted from Mattila, R. 2002. Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part II: Assurbanipal through Sin-šarru-iškun. SAA 14. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa14/P335139/.
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