Position in chronology
SAA 06 002. Musallim-Issar Purchases 5 Slaves (737-II-9) (ADD 0320)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) [Fingernail of NN, U]rdu, A[m..., ...]aya, and Na'[di-...]. (fingernail impressions) (3) El-tuklatua, Mumar-ili, Šamaš-le'i, Issar-da''ininni, and Mukinnat-Issar, a total of five persons — (6) Mušallim-Issar has contracted and bought them for 74 minas of copper. (8) The money is paid completely. Lawsuit or litig[ati]on is void. (r 1) Witness Qurdi-Nergal, Ṭabussu. (r 2) Witness Urdî, son of Susû. (r 3) Witness Aššur-aplu-iddina. Witness Ubrî, oil-presser. (r 5) Witness Ninuayu, [...]. (r 6) Witness Qurdi-[...]. (r 7) Month Iyyar (II), 9th day, [eponym year of] Bel-emur[anni].
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[ṣu-pur mx x m]⸢ur*⸣-du m⸢am*⸣-[x x x x] / [x x x x]-a.a mna-aʾ-[di—x x x] / mURU*—tuk-la*-a-tú-u-a mmu-mar—DINGIR / mdUTU—ZU MÍ.15—di-ʾi-ni-ni / MÍ.mu-ki-na-at—d.INNIN PAB 05 LÚ.ZI-MEŠ / ú-piš-ma mmu-šal-lim—d.INNIN / ina ŠÀ 74* MA.NA URUDU-MEŠ ⸢il-qi⸣ / kas-pu ga-mur SUM-ni DI.KUD* DUG₄.⸢DUG₄⸣ la-a-šú / IGI mqur-di—dU.GUR <DUMU> mṭa-bu-su / IGI mur-di-i DUMU msu-su-ú / IGI maš-šur—A—AŠ IGI…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335265.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335265). 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/P335265/.
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