Position in chronology
SAA 14 212. Riba-ilu Buys a Boy (ADD 0314)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(1) Seal of Ṣil-Aššur, [owner] of the son being sold. (unused seal space) (3) Nergal-ahu-uṣur, his son, [of x sp]ans — (4) Riba-ilu has contracted and [bou]ght [fr]om Ṣil-Aššur [fo]r 16 shekels of silver. (7) The money is [pa]id completely. That man is [purchased] and acquired. [Any revocation, l]awsuit, or litigation [is void]. (r 1) [Whoever] breaks the contract shall give [...] of silver. (r 3) [Witness ...]-ahhe. (r 4) [Witness ...]didi. (Break) (r 10) [..., ...]-šarru-uṣur. (r 11) [..., ...]-ereš. (r 12) [......], scribe.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[NA₄].KIŠIB mGIŠ.MI—aš-šur / [EN] DUMU SUM-ni / [md]U.GUR—PAB—PAB DUMU-šú / [x] ⸢ru⸣-ṭu ú-piš-ma mSU—DINGIR / [TAv] IGI mGIŠ.MI—aš-šur / [ina] ⸢ŠÀ⸣ 16 GÍN-MEŠ KUG.UD / [il]-qí kas-pu gam-mur / [ta]-din LÚ šú-a-tú / [za-rip] laq-qi / [tu-a-ru] ⸢de⸣-e-nu DUG₄.DUG₄ / [la-áš-šú man-nu] šá GIL-u-ni / [x x x x x KUG].UD SUM-an / [IGI mx x x]—PAB-MEŠ / [IGI mx x]-di-di / [IGI mx x x]-nu / [IGI mx x…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335259.
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/P335259/..
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/P335259/.
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