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SAA 14 347. Purchase of a Man (ADD 1172)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Seal of [..., owner of] the man being so[ld]. (blank seal space) (3) [NN], his servant, Zakiru — (4) [...]bil, pal[ace] superintendent [has contracted and bo]ught [for] half mina 5 shekels of silver. (6) The money [is paid completely]. That man [(is purchased and acquired)]. (Break) (r 1) [Witness NN], chief [...]. (r 2) [Witness NN], ša šēpi guard. (Break) (e. 1) [...]... (e. 2) [Month ...], 27th day, [epon]ym year of Bel-[...].
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/P335953/
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Transliteration
[NA₄].KIŠIB md⸢x⸣+[x x x] / [EN] LÚ ta-⸢da⸣-[ni] / [mx x] ARAD-šú mza-kir ⸢x⸣+[x x] / [mx]-bil? ⸢LÚ⸣.šá—IGI—⸢É?⸣.[GAL] / [ina ŠÀ] 1/2 MA.NA 05 GÍN KUG.UD / [is]-si-qi kas-pu [ga-mur] / [ta-din] LÚ šu-a-tú / [IGI mx x x] LÚ.GAL—[x x] / [IGI mx x x] LÚ.šá—GÌR.2 [x] / [x x x x x] LÚv?.[x] / [ITI.x] UD 27-KÁM / [lim]-mu mEN—[x x]
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335953.
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/P335953/..
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/P335953/.
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