Position in chronology
SAA 14 245. Purchase of Slaves (ADD 0291)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) The mone[y is paid completely], [these] people [are purchased and] (3) ac[quired ...] (Break) (r 1) [He shall contest in] his [la]wsuit [and not succeed]. (r 3) [Witness] Nabû'a, [...]. (r 4) [Witness] Nabû-le'i, [...]. (r 5) [Witn]ess Bel-aplu-iddina, [...]. (r 6) [Wi]tness Atar-suli, [...]. (r 7) Witness Arbaila[yu]. (r 8) Witness Mannu-ki-a[hhe]. (r 9) Witness Urdu-Inurta, [...]. (r 10) Witness Gadia. (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/P335236/
Why it matters
Transliteration
kas-⸢pu⸣ [gam-mur ta-din] / UN-MEŠ [x x x x x x] / la-[qi-u x x x x] / [ina de]-ni-šú [DUG₄.DUG₄-ma] / [la] i-[laq-qi] / [IGI] mna-bu-u-a [x x] / [IGI] mdPA—ZU [x x] / ⸢IGI⸣ mEN—A—AŠ [x x] / ⸢IGI⸣ ma-tar—su-li [x x] / IGI mURU.arba-ìl-[a.a] / IGI mman-nu—ki-i—⸢PAB⸣-[MEŠ] / IGI mARAD—dMAŠ? [x x] / IGI mga-di-ia
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335236.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335236). 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/P335236/.
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