Position in chronology
SAA 14 186. Babilayu Buys Six Slaves (ADD 0296)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(1) [...... ow]ner of the peop[le being sold]. (stamp seal impressions) (3) Halmusu, tailor, his wife, (4) [...]hulayu, Mari'-lihi', (5) [NN], Aššur-šumu-ka''in, (6) [in all 6 per]sons, servants of Mar-[...] — (7) Babilayu, [..., has contract]ed [...] (Break) (r 1) Witness [...]lay[u, ...]. (r 2) Witness Riba-Aya, [...]. (r 3) Witness Aya-ammu, [...]. (r 4) Witness Dadi-ibni, [...]. (r 5) Witness Tuimmu, [...]. (r 6) Witness [...]-šezib, [...]. (r 7) Witness Adad-remanni, [...]. (blank space of about 7 lines) (r 8) [Month ..., xth day], epo[nym year of ...].
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[x x x x x x x x] / ⸢EN⸣ UN-⸢MEŠ⸣ [ta-da-ni] / mḫal-mu-su LÚv.TÚG.KA.KÉŠ MÍ-šú / m⸢x x⸣-ḫu*-la*-a.a mma-ri—li-ḫi* / [mx x x]+⸢x⸣-a maš-šur—MU—GIN-⸢in⸣ / [PAB 06] ⸢ZI⸣-MEŠ ARAD-MEŠ ša m⸢mar?-x⸣+[x x x] / [ú-piš]-⸢ma⸣ mKÁ.DINGIR-a.a / [x x x x x]-⸢x⸣ [x x x x] / [IGI mx x]+⸢x⸣-la-a.[a x x x] / IGI mSU-ba*-a.a* [x x] / IGI ma.a—am-me [x x x] / IGI mU.U*—DÙ [x x x] / IGI mtu*-⸢im*⸣-mu [x x x] / IGI m⸢d*⸣[x]—še-zib ⸢LÚv⸣.[x x] / IGI m10—rém-a-ni ⸢LÚv⸣.[x x] / [ITI].⸢x⸣ [UD-x] ⸢lim*⸣-[mu 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 P335241.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335241). 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/P335241/.
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