Position in chronology
SAA 14 049. Kakkullanu Buys Three Slaves (ADD 0235)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(1) [Seal of Na]bû-šu[mu-lešir, owner] of the people being sold. (stamp seal impressions) (3) Mardî, gardener, his wife (and) his daughter, in all 3 persons, servants of Nabû-šumu-lešir — (6) Kakkullanu, cohort commander, has contracted and bought them for one mina of silver. (8) The money is paid completely. Those people are purchased and acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is void. (10) Whoever in the future, at any time, lodges a complaint or breaks the contract, whether Nabû-šumu-lešir or his sons or his grandsons, and seeks a lawsuit or litigation against Kakkullanu, [his…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[NA₄.KIŠIB md]⸢AG—MU⸣—[GIŠ] / [EN] UN-MEŠ SUM-ni / mmar-di-i LÚ.NU.GIŠ.SAR / MÍ-šú DUMU.MÍ-su PAB 03 ZI-MEŠ / ARAD-MEŠ-ni ša mdAG—MU—GIŠ / ú-piš-ma mkak-kul-la-nu LÚ.GAL—ki-ṣir / ina ŠÀ 01 MA.NA KUG.UD il-qí / kas-pu gam-mur ta-din UN-MEŠ šú-a-te / zar₄-pu TI-u tu-a-ru de-e-nu / DUG₄.DUG₄ la-áš-šú man-nu šá ina ur-kiš / ina ma-te-ma i-za-qu-pa-ni i-GIL-u-ni / lu-u mdPA—MU—GIŠ lu-u DUMU-MEŠ-šú /…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335182.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335182). 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/P335182/.
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