Position in chronology
SAA 14 196. Isinnayu Buys Slaves (ADD 0265)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(Beginning destroyed) (stamp seal impressions) (1) [...]nulamši and Bel-nur[i..., his] servants, (2) Šamaš-eriba and his wife Busuku — (3) Isinnayu has contracted, acquired and [purchased from] Kiribtu-Aššur [for] 50 shekels of copper by the mina of [...]. (7) The money is [paid] completely. Those [people] are purchased and [acquir]ed. Any revocation, lawsuit or [litigation] is void. (11) [Whoever in] the future, at any time, (Break) (r 2) shall place [...... in the lap of DN re]siding in [...]. He shall return the [money ten]fold [to] its [owner]s. He shall contest [in] his [law]suit and not…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[mx]-nu*-lam*-ši* mEN—nu-⸢ri⸣ [x x] ⸢ARAD*-MEŠ*⸣-[šú] / [md]UTU—SU MÍ.⸢bu-su-ku*⸣ MÍ-šú / [ú]-piš-ma mi-si?-na-a.a / [TAv IGI] mki-ri-bi-tú—aš-šur / [ina ŠÀ] ⸢50⸣ URUDU-MEŠ ina 01 MA.NA-e / [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ i-zi-rip / [i-si-qi] kas-pu ga-mur / [ta-din UN]-MEŠ šu-a-tu* za-ar-pu / [la-qi]-ú tú-a-ru de-nu / [DUG₄.DUG₄] la-áš-šú / [man-nu šá ina] ur-kiš ina ma-te-ma / [ina bur-ki dx a]-šib / [URU.x x x]…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335212.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335212). 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/P335212/.
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