Position in chronology
SAA 14 247. Purchase of Slaves (ADD 0305)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Seal of Bel-ereš, owner of the people being sold. (unused seal space) (2) [...], his wife, his 2 sons, [his] daughter [...] (3) [in all x per]sons, ser[vants] (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/P335250/
Why it matters
Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB mEN—APIN-eš EN UN-MEŠ SUM-ni / [mx x x] MÍ-šú 02 DUMU-MEŠ-šú DUMU.MÍ-[su x x x x] / [PAB x] ⸢ZI⸣-MEŠ ⸢ARAD⸣-[MEŠ]
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335250.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335250). 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/P335250/.
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