Position in chronology
SAA 14 424. Asalluhi-šumu-iddina, Cohort Commander, Buys 12 Slaves (*638-X-12) (TIM 11 02)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(1) Seal of Sukki-Aya, son of Parnu-uari, Kummuhean merchant, owner of the people being sold. (stamp seal impressions) (4) Isî, Attar-... his wife, B[an]î, his son of 5 span, Dayyanu-idri, his son of [x] span, Ramâ, his daughter, in all 5. (8) Pušaya, Nagâ his wife, Pudî, his brother, Attar-idri, his weaned son, in all 4. (10) Kiqillanu, Quta[r]î, his brother, Il-idri, tanner. (11) In all 12 persons, servants of Sukki-Aya, son of Parnu-uari — (14) Asalluhi-šumu-iddina, cohort commander of the ša šēpi guard has contracted and bought for 10 m[in]as of silver. (16) The money is paid completely.…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB mTE-a.a A mpar-nu—u-a-ri / LÚ.DAM.QAR KUR.ku-mu-ḫa-a-u / EN UN-MEŠ ta-da-a-ni / m⸢i?⸣-si-i? MÍ.a-tar—⸢x-x MÍ⸣-šú / m⸢ba⸣-[ni?]-i DUMU-šú 05 ru-ṭu / m⸢da⸣-a.a-nu—id-ri ⸢DUMU-šú⸣ [x] ⸢ru-ṭu⸣ / MÍ.ra-ma-a DUMU.MÍ-su PAB 05 / mpu-ša-a.a MÍ.na-⸢ga?⸣-a MÍ-šú / mpu-di-i PAB-šú ma-tar—id-ri / DUMU-šú pir-su PAB 04 mki-qi-la-nu / mqu-ta-⸢ri⸣-i PAB-šú mDINGIR—id-ri / LÚ.AŠGAB PAB 12 ZI-MEŠ…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P337156.
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/P337156/..
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/P337156/.
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