Position in chronology
SAA 14 065. Urdu-Issar, Chamberlain, Buys Two Slaves (668-X-28) (ADD 0284+)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(Beginning destroyed) (1) [NN and] Sadaya, his mother, a total of 2 person(s) — (2) Urdu-Issar, chamberlain, [has contracted] and bought them [from] Salmanu-imme for 1 1/2 minas of silver [by the min]a of the king. (4) The money [is pa]id completely. Those people [are pur]chased and acquired. Any revocation, [law]suit, or litigation is void. (8) (Guaranteed against) [seiz]ures of epilepsy for 100 days (and against) fraud [for]ever. (9) Whoever in the future, [at any ti]me, lodges a complaint and breaks the contract [whether] Salmanu-imme or his sons [or] his [grand]sons or [his] brothers [or]…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[x x x x x] ⸢MÍ.sa-da-a*.a AMA⸣-šú PAB 02 ZI / [ú-piš]-ma! mARAD—d15 LÚ.šá—UGU—É-a-ni / [TAv md]DI-ma-nu—im-me ina ŠÀ 1 1/2 MA.NA KUG.UD / [ina ma-né]-e šá MAN TI-qí kas-pu gam-mur / [ta]-⸢ad⸣-din LÚ.UN-MEŠ šu-a-tú / [za]-⸢ar⸣-pu laq-qí-u tu-a-ru / [de]-e-nu DUG₄.DUG₄ la-áš-šu / [ṣib]-tú be-nu ina 01 me UD-MEŠ sa-ár-tú / [a-na] ⸢kal⸣ MU.AN.NA-MEŠ man-nu šá ina ur-kiš / [ina ma-te]-ma…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335229.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335229). 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/P335229/.
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