Position in chronology
SAA 06 003. Mušallim-Issar Buys a Slave (ADD 0492)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(Beginning destroyed) (2) [...] of Arbela [...] — (3) Mušallim-Issar, [village manager, has contracted, purcha]sed, and bought (him) [for] 2 homers of barley (equalling) 80 minas of copper at its current value. (5) The money is paid completely. That [man] is purchased, acquired, paid off, and cleared. [Any revoca]tion, lawsuit or litigation is void. (8) [Whoever in the] future, in far-off days, [whether ...]banu or his sons, [grandsons] or labour-duty superior, seeks [a lawsuit or lit]igation against Mušallim-Issar, (12) shall pay 5 minas of silver (and) one mina of gold [to Ištar of] Arbela, and shall return [the money] tenfold to its owners. He shall contest [in] his lawsuit and not succeed. (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[x x x x x] nu [x] ⸢x⸣ [x x x x] / [x x]-⸢li*⸣ ša URU.arba-⸢ìl⸣ [x x x x] / [ú-piš]-ma mmu-šal-lim—d.INNIN LÚ.[GAL—URU-MEŠ] / [ina ŠÀ] 80* MA.NA URUDU-MEŠ 02* ANŠE ŠE*.PAD*-MEŠ a-ki pa-ša*-[ri] / [i]-⸢zi*⸣-rip i-si-qi kas-pu ga-mur ta-di-ni / [LÚ] ⸢šu⸣-a-tú za-rip la-a-qí a-pil za-a-ku / [tu-a]-⸢ru⸣ DI.KUD DUG₄.DUG₄ la-a-šú / [man-nu ša a]-⸢na⸣ ur-kiš a-na UD-me a-ṣa-ti / [lu mx x]+⸢x⸣-ba-nu lu…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335430.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335430). 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/P335430/.
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