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SAA 14 475. Urdu Buys People (ADD 0259)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Fingernail of Bel-iqbi, (2) Fingernail of Zeru-ibni, (3) Fingernail of Bel-abu-uṣur, (4) owner(s) of the people being sold. (space for fingernail impressions) (5) [...]-Marduk, his wife, (6) his [x sons], his 2 daughters, (7) [in all x per]sons, servants [of] these [men] — (9) Urdu [has contrac]ted and bought them [from] these men [for 1]80 (shekels of) copper. (12) [The money] is paid completely. The [people] are purchased and acquired. Any [revocat]ion, lawsuit, or litigation is void. (15) [Whoever in] the future lodges a complaint and seeks [a law]suit against Urdu and his sons, (18)…
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/P335206/
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Transliteration
ṣu-pur md.EN—DUG₄.⸢GA*⸣ / ṣu-pur mNUMUN—DÙ / ṣu-pur md*EN—AD—⸢PAB⸣ / EN UN-MEŠ SUM-ni / [mx (x) x]—dAMAR.UTU MÍ-šú / [x (x) DUMU-MEŠ]-šú 02 DUMU.MÍ-MEŠ-šú / [PAB x] ⸢ZI*⸣-MEŠ ARAD-MEŠ-ni / [ša LÚ]-⸢MEŠ⸣ an-nu-ti / [ú]-⸢piš⸣-ma mur-du / [TAv IGI] ⸢LÚ⸣-MEŠ an-nu-ti / [ina ŠÀ-bi 01] me 80 URUDU-MEŠ TI-⸢qi*⸣ / [kas-pu] gam-mur ta-ad-din / [UN-MEŠ] za-ár-pu laq-qi-u / [tu-a]-⸢ru⸣ DUG₄.DUG₄ la-áš-šú /…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335206.
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/P335206/..
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/P335206/.
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