Position in chronology
SAA 14 021. Ninuayu Buys Slaves (ADD 0260)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(Beginning destroyed) (1) [in all x] persons, [servants of A]rbayu— (3) Ninuayu, eunuch of the king, [has contract]ed and bought them [for x] minas of silver by the mina of Carchemish from Arbayu. (6) The money is paid completely. Those people are purchased and acqu[ir]ed. Any revocation, lawsuit, or lit[igat]ion is void. (9) Whoever in the f[utu]re, at any time, lod[ge]s a complaint and breaks the contract, whether A[rba]yu or his brothers, or his nephews, or any relative of his, and seeks a lawsuit or litigation against [Ni]nuayu, [and his brothers], and his nephews, (16) shall pla[ce] 10…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[PAB x] LÚ.ZI-MEŠ [ARAD-MEŠ-šú] / [ša m]⸢ar⸣-ba-a.a / [ú-piš]-⸢ma⸣ mNINA.KI-a.a LÚ.SAG—MAN / [ina ŠÀ x] MA.NA KUG.UD ina ma-né-e ša KUR.gar-ga-mis / TAv IGI mar-ba-a.a il-qí / kas-pu ga-mur ta-din UN-MEŠ / šu-a-te za-ar-pu laq-[qi]-ú / tu-a-ru de-e-nu da-[ba-a]-bu / la-áš-šú man-nu šá ina ⸢ur-kiš⸣ / ù ma-te-ma i-za-⸢qu⸣-[pa]-a-ni / i-GIL-ú-ni lu-u m⸢ar⸣-[ba]-a.a / lu-u ŠEŠ-MEŠ-šú lu-u…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335207.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335207). 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/P335207/.
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