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SAA 06 058. Nabu-šumu-iškun Buys More Slaves (ADD 0501)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) [Nabû-šumu-iškun] has purchased and b[ought them for] 13 mina[s of silver.] (2) [The money] is paid [compl]etely. [Those people are pu]rchased and acq[uired. Any revocation, law]su[it, or litigation is void] (Break) (r 1) [whoever] se[eks (a lawsuit or litigation) against] Nabû-šumu-iškun (or) against [his] so[ns shall pl]ace [x mi]nas of silver (and) 5 minas of go[ld] in the lap of Adad residing in [...]. (r 5) [He shall re]turn the money tenfold to [its owner]. He shall con[test] in his lawsuit [and n]ot succeed. The jud[ge shall not heed] his [ca]se. (r 8) [Witness Aha]bû [...] (Rest destroyed)
Source: 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/P335439/
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Transliteration
[ina ŠÀ] ⸢13?⸣ MA.⸢NA*⸣ [KUG.UD] / ⸢i-zi⸣-rip ⸢is⸣-[si-qi kas-pu] / [gam]-⸢mur⸣ ta-din [x x x x] / [za]-⸢ár⸣-pu laq-[qi-u tu-a-ru] / [de]-⸢e*⸣-[nu DUG₄.DUG₄] / [TAv m]d*PA*—MU—GAR-un TAv ⸢DUMU⸣-[MEŠ-šú] / [TAv] DUMU—DUMU-MEŠ-šú ub-ta-[u-ni] / [x] ⸢MA⸣.NA KUG.UD 05 MA.NA ⸢KUG⸣.[GI] / ⸢i⸣-na bur-ki dIM a-šib URU.[x x x] / ⸢GAR⸣-an kas-pu a-na 10-MEŠ-te a-⸢na⸣ [EN-šú] / ⸢GUR⸣-ra ina de-ni-šú DUG₄.⸢DUG₄⸣-[ma] / ⸢la*⸣ TI* de*-en-šú ⸢DI*⸣.[KUD la i-šá-mu] / [IGI mPAB]-⸢bu-u?⸣ [x x x x]
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335439.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335439). 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/P335439/.
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