Position in chronology
SAA 14 056. Aššur-šumu-ka’’in, King’s Cohort Commander, Buys Three Men (ADD 0252)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(Beginning destroyed) (stamp seal impressions) (1) Ninuayu, Nergal-naṣir, Zabinu, [in all] 3 slaves, servants of Nabû-ayali — (3) Aššur-šumu-ka''in, cohort commander of the ki[ng], has contracted and bought them [f]or one good horse. (5) The [mon]ey is paid completely. Those people are purchased and acquired. Any [rev]ocation, lawsuit, or litigation is void. (7) [Whoev]er in the future, at any time, comes forward, [wheth]er the governor of Samaria [o]r these men or [their] sons, and instigates a [lawsuit] or litigation [against] Aššur-šumu-ka''in and his sons, (Break) (r 2) [shall place x…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
⸢m⸣ni-nu-a.a mdU.GUR—PAB mza-bi-nu / [PAB*] 03 ARAD-MEŠ ⸢LÚv⸣.TUR-MEŠ ša mdPA—ia-li / ⸢ú⸣-piš-ma maš-šur—MU—GIN ⸢LÚv⸣.GAL—ki-ṣir ša ⸢LUGAL*⸣ / [ina] ⸢ŠÀ⸣-bi 01 ANŠE.KUR.RA SIG₅ il-qi / [kas*]-pu ga-mur ta-din UN-MEŠ šu-a-ti zar₄-pu laq*-⸢qí*⸣-[u] / [tu]-⸢a⸣-ru de-e-nu DUG₄.DUG₄ la-áš-šú / [man]-⸢nu⸣ ša a-na ur-kiš a-na ma-te-ma e-la-⸢an⸣-[ni] / [lu]-u LÚv.EN.NAM ša URU.sa-mar-na* / [lu]-u LÚ-MEŠ…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335199.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Raija Mattila, Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part II: Assurbanipal Through Sin-šarru-iškun (State Archives of Assyria, 14), 2002. Lemmatised by Melanie Groß, 2010–2011, as part of the FWF-funded research project "Royal Institutional Households in First Millennium BC Mesopotamia" (S 10802-G18) directed by Heather D. Baker at the University of Vienna. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P335199/..
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/P335199/.
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