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SAA 14 078. Nabu’a Buys a Slave (659) (ADD 1241)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Seal of Sangû-Issar, son of Handa-riṣi, owner of the man being sold. (cylinder seal impressions) (4) Balta-idri, servant of Sangû-Issar — (6) Nabû'a has contracted and [bought him fr]om Sangû-Issar [for] one mina of silver [by the min]a of Carchemish. (10) [The money is paid comple]tely. [That man is purchased and acquired. Any lawsuit or litigation is vo]id. (r 2) Who[ever in the fu]ture, at any time, lodges a complaint and breaks the contract, shall return the money tenfold to its owners. He shall contest in his lawsuit and not succeed. (r 7) Witness Nabû-tartiba-ahhe. (r 8) Witness…
Source: 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/P336004/
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Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB mSANGA—d15 / DUMU* mḫa-an-da—ri-ṣi / EN LÚ SUM-a-ni / mba-al-ta—id-ri LÚv.ARAD-šú / ša mSANGA—d15 / ú-piš-ma mdAG-ú-a / ⸢TAv IGI⸣ mSANGA—d15 / [ina ŠÀ] 01 MA.NA KUG.UD / [ina ma-né]-⸢e*⸣ šá gar-ga-mis / [il-qi kas-pu ga]-⸢mur⸣ / [ta-din LÚ šú-a-tú za-rip la-qi] / [de-nu DUG₄.DUG₄ la]-áš-šu / ⸢man⸣-[nu šá ina ur]-kiš u ma-te-e-ma / i-zaq-qu-pa-an-ni / GIL-u-ni kas-pu ana 10-MEŠ-te / ana…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P336004.
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/P336004/..
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/P336004/.
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