SAA 06 341. Remanni-Adad Buys 30 Slaves (ADD 0424)

~700 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P335367

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 6

High confidence

(Beginning destroyed) (2) 2 per[sons .......] (3) Nur-[......] (4) Ša-[......] (5) [.......] (6) Ban[î, ......], (7) Ereš-[..., NN]; a total of 12 persons. (8) [NN], his wife and daughter; Na'di-[... and NN]; a total of 5 persons, (r 1) in all 30 persons, servants of his house — (r 2) Remanni-Adad, chariot driver of the king of Assyria, has contracted and bought (said) fields, houses and people for 30 minas of silver from Arbailayu. (r 4) The money [is paid] comple[tely. Those fields, houses and peop]le [are purchased and acquired. Any rev]ocation, [lawsuit, or litigation is void]. (r 7)…

State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).

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Transliteration

01 [x x x x x x x x x x x x] / 02* ⸢ZI⸣-[MEŠ x x x x x x x x x] / mZÁLAG—[x x x x x x x x x x] / m⸢šá*—d*⸣[x x x x x x x x] / m⸢d⸣[x x x x x x x x x x] / mba-⸢ni*⸣-[i x x x x x x x] / mAPIN*-ka-⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x] / PAB 12 ZI-[MEŠ mx x x x x x] / MÍ-šú DUMU.MÍ-⸢su⸣ mI—[x x x x x] / PAB 05 ZI-MEŠ o* / PAB 30 ZI-MEŠ LÚv.ARAD-MEŠ ša É-šú ú-piš-ma / mrém-a-ni—10 LÚv.mu-kil—KUŠ.PA-MEŠ ša MAN…

Scholarly note

Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335367.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335367). source
Translation excerpted from Kwasman, T. & Parpola, S. 1991. Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part I: Tiglath-Pileser III through Esarhaddon. SAA 6. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa06/P335367/.

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