Position in chronology
SAA 14 019. Ninuayu Buys Two Slaves (ADD 0249)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(Beginning destroyed) (1) Asalluhi-hutnu, Addî, his brother, in all 2 persons, servants of Hudaya — (5) Ninuayu, eunuch of the king, has contracted and bought them for one mina and 30 shekels of silver by the mina of Carchemish from Hudaya. (10) The money is paid completely. Those [people] are purch[ased and acquired. Any revocation, lawsui]t, or lit[igation] is [v]oid. (14) Whoev[er in the future], or at any time, breaks the contract, whether Hudaya or his sons (or) his grandsons, and seeks a lawsuit or litigation against Ninuayu, (r 6) shall place 10 minas of silver (and) 2 minas of gold in…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
mdASAR.LÚ.ḪI—ḫu-ut-nu / ma-di-i ŠEŠ-šu / PAB 02 LÚ.ZI-MEŠ ARAD-MEŠ-ni / ša mḫu-da-a.a / ú-piš-ma mNINA.KI-a.a / LÚ.SAG šá LUGAL / ina ŠÀ-bi 01 MA.NA 30 GÍN KUG.UD / ina ma-né-e šá KUR.gar-ga-mis / TAv IGI mḫu-da-a.a / il-qí kas-pu gam-mur ta-din / [LÚv]-MEŠ šu-a-te za-⸢ar⸣-[pu] / [la-qí-u tu-a-ru] / [de-e]-⸢nu DUG₄⸣.[DUG₄] / [la]-áš-šu man-⸢nu⸣ [ša ina ur-kiš] / ù im—ma-te-⸢ma⸣ / i-GIL-u-ni /…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335196.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Sippar-Yahrurum (mod. Tell Abu Habbah) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335196). 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/P335196/.
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