Position in chronology
SAA 06 039. Šumma-ilani Buys Numerous Slaves from Bel-Harran-isse'a (694-I) (ADD 0239)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(Beginning destroyed) (1) a total [of x persons belonging to Bel-Harran-isse'a] — (2) [Šumma-ilani] has cont[racted and] bou[ght them from Bel-Harran-isse'a] for 18 minas of [silver by the mina] of Carchemish. (5) The money is pa[id] completely. [Those people] are purchased and acquired. Any rev[ocation, lawsuit], or litigation is void. (7) Whoever in the f[uture], at any time, lodges a complai[nt, whether Bel-Harran-isse'a] or his sons, grand[sons], brothers or relatives, and se[eks a lawsuit] or litigation against Šumma-ilani, [his] so[ns] and grandsons, shall pay 20 minas of silver, and…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
PAB [x ZI-MEŠ ARAD-MEŠ šá mEN—KASKAL—KI-ia] / ú-⸢piš⸣-[ma mBE-ma—DINGIR-MEŠ] / ina ŠÀ 18 MA.⸢NA⸣ [KUG.UD ina 01 MA.NA] / ša URU.gar-ga-⸢mis⸣ [TAv IGI mEN—KASKAL—KI-ia] / TI-[qí] kas-pu gam-mur ta-ad-[din UN-MEŠ šu-a-te] / zar-pu laq-⸢qí⸣-u tu-[a-ru de-e-nu] / DUG₄.DUG₄ la-áš-šú ⸢man-nu⸣ šá ina ⸢ur⸣-[kiš] / ina ma-te-ma i-zaq-qup-an-⸢ni⸣ [lu-u mEN—KASKAL—KI-ia] / 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 P335186.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335186). 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/P335186/.
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