Position in chronology
SAA 06 057. Nabu-šumu-iškun, Sennacherib's Chariot Driver, Buys 20 Slaves (ADD 0253)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(Beginning destroyed) (space for stamp seal impressions) (1) [NN], a prisoner in his custody, 1 suckling child, [......], his wi[fe], 2 servants of his, a total of 10 persons; (3) [NN], his 2 wives, his 3 sons, [x ..., x] servants of his, a total of 10 persons, [in all 20 peo]ple of Ubru-Nabû [...] — (6) Nabû-šumu-iškun, [chariot driv]er of Sennacherib, [king of Assyria], has contracted and bought them for 10 minas of silver by the mina [of Carch]emish. (9) The money [is paid completely]. Those [pe]ople [are purchased and acquired. Any revocat]ion, lawsuit, or [litigation is void. Whoe]ver,…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[mx x x] LÚ*.DIB šá ⸢IGI*⸣-šú 01* DUMU ⸢GA*⸣ / [x x x] ⸢MÍ⸣-šú ⸢02 ARAD⸣-MEŠ-šú PAB 10 ZI-[MEŠ] / [mx x x]+⸢x⸣ 02 MÍ-⸢MEŠ⸣-šú 03 DUMU-MEŠ-šú / [x x x] ARAD-MEŠ-šú PAB 10 ZI-MEŠ / [PAB-ma 20] ⸢UN⸣-MEŠ šá mSUḪUŠ—dPA ⸢ŠA?⸣ / [x x]+⸢x⸣ ú-piš-ma mdPA—MU—GAR-un / [LÚ.DIB—KUŠ].PA-MEŠ šá md30—PAB-MEŠ—SU / [MAN KUR—aš-šur] ina ŠÀ 10 MA.NA KUG.UD ina 01 MA.NA / [šá URU.gar]-⸢ga-mis⸣ TI-qí kas-pu / [gam-mur…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335200.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Theodore Kwasman and Simo Parpola , Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part I: Tiglath-Pileser III through Esarhaddon (State Archives of Assyria, 6), 1991. Lemmatised by Melanie Groß, 2010–2011, as part of the FWF-funded research project "Royal Institutional Households in First Millennium BC Mesopotamia" (S 10802-G18) directed by Heather D. Baker at the University of Vienna. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P335200/..
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/P335200/.
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