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SAA 06 007. Mušallim-Issar Buys a Slave (ADD 0180)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) [Inst]ead of his seal he impressed his fingernail. (fingernail impressions) (2) Fingernail of Balaṭu-ereš, owner of the man. (3) Akbar, his servant — (4) Mušallim-Issar, [village] manager of the chief eunuch, has contracted and bought him from Bala[ṭu-ereš] for 100 minas of copper. (7) The money is paid completely. That man is purchased and acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is void. (9) Whoever in the future, at any time, lodges a complaint, whether Balaṭu-ereš or his sons or his grandsons, and seeks a lawsuit or litigation against Mušallim-Issar, (15) shall pla[ce] 10…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[ku]-⸢um NA₄.KIŠIB-šú ṣu-bár*⸣-šú GAR-un / ṣu-pur mTI.LA—KAM-eš EN ⸢LÚ⸣ / mak-bar LÚv.ARAD-šú / ú-piš-ma mmu-DI—⸢15 GAL⸣—[URU-MEŠ-ni] / ša GAL—SAG TAv IGI mTI.⸢LA⸣—[KAM-eš] / ina ŠÀ 01 me MA.NA URUDU-MEŠ il-qi / kas-pu ga-mur ta-din LÚ šú-a-⸢tú⸣ / za-rip laq-qi ⸢tu-a-ru de⸣-nu / DUG₄.DUG₄ la-áš-šú man-nu šá ina ur-kiš / ina ma-te-ma i-za-qu-pa-a-ni / lu-u mTI.LA—KAM-eš / lu-u DUMU-MEŠ-šú lu-u…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335130.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335130). 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/P335130/.
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