Position in chronology
SAA 06 053. Šumma-Ilani Buys Two Slaves (ADD 0236)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) Fingernail of Kiqillanu, [..., own]er of the people being so[ld]. (fingernail impressions) (3) [...]-šarru-uṣur and his mother, [a total of 2] servants of Kiqillanu — (5) Šumma-ilani [has contract]ed and bought them from Kiqillanu for one mina of silver by the mina of Carchemish. (9) The money is paid completely. [The people] are purchased and acquired. [Any rev]ocation or litigation is void. (12) [Whoeve]r breaks the contract shall pla[ce x mi]nas of silver and one mina of gold [in] the lap of Mul[lissu] residing in Nineveh, and shall return the money tenfold to its owners. He shall…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
ṣu-pur mki-qi-la*-ni ⸢LÚv⸣.[x x] / ⸢EN⸣ UN-MEŠ ta-⸢da⸣-[ni] / [mx x]—⸢LUGAL?⸣—PAB ⸢MÍ⸣.AMA-šú / [PAB 02 LÚv].ARAD-MEŠ ša mki-qi-⸢la*⸣-ni / [ú-piš]-⸢ma⸣ mšum-mu—DINGIR-MEŠ-ni / ina ŠÀ-bi 01 MA.NA KUG.UD-MEŠ / ina 01 MA.NA-e ša URU.gar-ga-mis / TAv IGI mki-qi-la*-ni il-qí / kas-pu ga-mur ta-din / [UN-MEŠ] za-ar-pu laq-qí-u / [tu-a]-ru DUG₄.DUG₄ la-áš-šú / [man-nu] ⸢ša⸣ GIL-ú-ni / [x MA].NA KUG.UD…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335183.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335183). 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/P335183/.
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