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SAA 14 016. Ninuayu Buys Slaves (*639-X-18) (ADD 0250)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Seal of Hudayu, son of Muṣurayu, [...], owner of the people being sold. (stamp seal impressions) (3) [Il-h]azi (and) Ahati-ṭabat, his mother, [in all 2 persons, servant]s of Hudayu — (5) Ninuayu, eunuch of the king, [has contracted and bought them for x mi]nas of silver from Hudayu. (7) [The money is p]aid completel[y]. [Those] pe[ople (are purchased and acquired)] (Break) (r 1) Witness Issar-tariba, [...]. (r 2) Month Tebet (X), 18th day, eponym year of Mušallim-Aššur. (r 4) Witness Marduk-zeru-ibni, scribe. (Aramaic caption: [D]eed of Il-haz[i and his mother].)
Source: 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/P335197/
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Transliteration
[NA₄].KIŠIB mḫu-da-a.a DUMU mmu-ṣur-a.a ⸢LÚ⸣.[x x] / EN UN-MEŠ ta-da-a-ni / m[DINGIR—la-ḫa]-az-zi MÍ.a-ḫa-ti—ṭa-bat AMA-šú / [PAB 02 ZI-MEŠ ARAD]-⸢MEŠ⸣ ša mḫu-da-a.a / [ú-piš-ma] mURU.NINA.KI-a.a LÚ.SAG—MAN / [ina ŠÀ x MA].⸢NA⸣ KUG.UD TAv IGI mḫu-da-a.a / [il-qi kas-pu gam]-⸢mur ta⸣-din ⸢UN⸣-[MEŠ] / IGI m15—ta-SU LÚ.[x x x x] / ITI.AB UD 18-KÁM / lim-mu mmu-šal-lim—aš-šur / IGI mdŠÚ—NUMUN—DÙ A.BA
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335197.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335197). 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/P335197/.
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