Position in chronology
SAA 14 105. Ribate Buys a Slave (*639-XI-22) (ADD 0173)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Seal of Qibit-Issar, seal of La-teggi-Nanaya, seal of Mannu-ki-Adad, in all 3 men, owners of the man being sold. (stamp seal impressions) (5) Habil-ken, their servant — (6) Ribate has contracted, purchased and bought from these men for 2 minas and 10 shekels of silver. (10) The money is paid completely. That man is purchased and acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is void. (13) Whoever in the future, at any time, lodges a complaint and breaks the contract, whether these men or their sons [o]r their grandsons [o]r their brothers, and [seeks a lawsuit or litigation agai]nst…
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/P335123/
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Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB mqi-bit—d15 / NA₄.KIŠIB mla—te*-gi—dna-na-a.a* / NA₄.KIŠIB mman-nu—ki—dIM / PAB 03 LÚ-MEŠ EN LÚ SUM-ni / mḫa-bíl—GIN ARAD-šú-nu / ú-piš-ma mri-ba-a-te / TAv IGI LÚ-MEŠ an-nu-te / ina ŠÀ 02 MA.NA ⸢10⸣ GÍN-MEŠ KUG.UD / i-zi-rip i-si-qi / kas-pu ga-mur ta-din / LÚ šu-a-tú za-rip laq-qi / tu-a-ru de-nu DUG₄.DUG₄* la*-šú* / man-nu ša ina ur-kiš im-te-ma / i-za-qu-pa-ni ⸢i⸣-GIL-u-ni / lu-u…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335123.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335123). 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/P335123/.
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