Position in chronology
SAA 14 179. Governor Buys Slaves (ADD 0293)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (stamp seal impressions) (1) [...]ayu [...], (2) Šimî'anni-[DN], (3) servants of [NN] — (4) [NN], governor of [...] has contracted, acquired and bought from [these] men for 2 minas of silver [...] (8) at the disposal of the servant of [...] of the [gold]smith. (r 1) Those [...] are pur[chased and acquired. Any lawsuit, or litigation] is vo[id]. (Rest destroyed)
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/P335238/
Why it matters
Transliteration
m[x x x]-a.a [x x x (x*)] / MÍ.ḪAL*-⸢a*⸣-ni—d[x x x x*] / ARAD-MEŠ-ni šá m[x x x x x] / ú-piš-ma m⸢x⸣+[x x x x] / LÚv.EN.NAM [x x x x x] / ina TAv pa-an LÚ-⸢MEŠ⸣ [an-nu-te] / ina ŠÀ 02 MA.NA KUG.UD [x x*] / i-zi-rip i-TI-qí ma-[x x*] / ina IGI ša ARAD ša [x x] / ša SIMUG.⸢KUG⸣.[GI] / [x x x*] šu*-a-⸢tú* za*⸣-[ar-pu la-qi-u*] / [x x x x] la*-[áš-šú x x x x]
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335238.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335238). 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/P335238/.
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