SAA 06 041. Šumma-ilani Buys 7 Slaves from Bel-Harran-isse’a (693-I) (ADD 0240)

~700 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P335187

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 6

High confidence

(1) Instead of [his] se[al he impressed his fingernail]. (2) Fingernail of Bel-[Harran-isse'a, owner of the people] being so[ld]. (fingernail impressions) (4) Il-natan [......], Aduni-ṭu[ri ......], his 3 sons, [......], a total of 7 persons, [servants of Bel-Harran-isse'a] — (8) [Šumma-ilani], chariot driver, has contracted and bought them from Bel-[Harran-isse'a for x minas of silver] by the mina of [Carchemish] . (12) The mo[ney] is paid [completely. The people are purchased] and acquired. Any revocation, [lawsuit, or litigation is void]. (r 1) [Whoev]er [lodges a complaint shall pay x…

State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).

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Transliteration

ku-um NA₄.⸢KIŠIB⸣-[šú ṣu-pur-šú iš-kun] / ṣu-pur mEN—⸢KASKAL⸣—[KI-ia EN UN-MEŠ] / ta-ad-[da-ni] / mDINGIR—na-tan [x x x x x] / ma-du-ni—ṭu-[ri x x x x x] / 03 DUMU-MEŠ-šú [x x x x x] / PAB 07 ZI-MEŠ [ARAD-MEŠ ša mEN—KASKAL—KI-ia] / ú-piš-ma [mšum-ma—DINGIR-MEŠ] / LÚv.mu-kil—KUŠ.PA-MEŠ [ina ŠÀ x MA.NA KUG.UD] / ⸢ina*⸣ MA.NA ša ⸢URU⸣.[gar-ga-mis] / TAv IGI mEN—[KASKAL—KI-ia] / il-qi ⸢kas⸣-[pu…

Scholarly note

Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335187.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335187). 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/P335187/.

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