Position in chronology
SAA 06 034. Šumma-ilani, Chariot Driver, Buys Three Slaves (709-V-20) (ADD 0234)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) Seal of D[agan-milki], owner of the people being [sold]. (blank seal space) (3) Immannu, the woman Un[u...]ni, and Milki-uri, a total of 3 persons — (5) Šumma-ilani, chariot driver of the royal corps, has contracted and bought them from Dagan-milki for 3 minas of silver by the mina of Carchemish. (10) The money is paid completely. Those people are purchased and acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is void. (13) Whoever in the future, at any time, lodges a complaint or breaks the contract, whether Dagan-milki or his brothers or nephews, or any relative of his or anyone…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
⸢NA₄⸣.KIŠIB m⸢da⸣-[gan—mil-ki] / EN UN-MEŠ ⸢ta⸣-[da-ni] / mi-man-nu-u MÍ.ú-⸢nu*⸣-[x x]-⸢ni?⸣ / mmil-ki—ú-ri PAB 03 ⸢ZI-MEŠ⸣ / ú-piš-ma mBE-ma—DINGIR-MEŠ / LÚ.mu-kil—KUŠ.PA-MEŠ / ša mKA.KÉŠ—LUGAL TAv IGI / mda-gan—mil-ki ina ŠÀ 03 MA.NA ⸢KUG.UD⸣ / ina 01 MA.NA-e šá URU.gar-ga-mis TI-qí / kas-pu gam-mur ta-ad-din / UN-MEŠ šu-a-tú ⸢zar⸣-pu laq-qí-u / tu-a-ru de-e-nu DUG₄.⸢DUG₄⸣ / la-áš-šú man-nu šá…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335181.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335181). 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/P335181/.
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