SAA 14 244. Purchase of a Slave (ADD 0290)

~655 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P335235

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 14

High confidence

(Beginning destroyed) (r 1) [...... (Guaranteed against) seizures of] epilepsy [for 100 days (and against)] fraud [forever]. (r 4) He shall contest in his lawsuit [and not succeed]. (r 5) Witness Addî, [...]. (r 6) Witness Ahi-ram, [...]. (r 7) Witness Se'-ili, [...]. (r 8) Witness Ra'û, [...]. (r 9) Witness Lu-šalim, [...]. (r 10) Witness Zakir[u, ...]. (r 11) [......] (Rest destroyed)

State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).

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Transliteration

[x x x x x x ṣib-tu] / be-en-nu [x x x x x x] / sa-ar-tú [x x x x x] / ina de-ni-šú DUG₄.DUG₄-[ma la TI] / IGI md10-i [x x x x] / IGI mPAB—ra-⸢mu⸣ [x x x x] / IGI msi-i-[li x x x x] / IGI mra-ʾu-[ú x x x x] / IGI mlu—DI-[me x x x x] / IGI mza-ki-⸢ru⸣ [x x x x] / [x x x x x x]-MEŠ

Scholarly note

Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335235.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335235). 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/P335235/.

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