SAA 06 059. Marduk-[…], Sennacherib’s [...], Buys Slaves (684-XIIa-14) (ADD 0255)

~700 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P335202

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 6

High confidence

(1) Seal of Bel-abu-uṣur, own[er of the people being sold]. (cylinder seal impression) (2) Barahu including [his] people, Ṭabuni including [his] pe[ople, and S]itirkanu inclu[ding his people, a]ll (of them) in [their] enti[rety] — (6) Marduk-[..., the ...] of Senna[cherib, king of Assyria], has contracted [and bought them fro]m Bel-ab[u-uṣur] for a talent of [copper]. (10) [The money is paid] comple[tely]. (Break) (r 1) Witness Nabû-eṭira[nni, ...]. (r 2) Witness Nabû-mudammiq, [...]. (r 3) Witness Bab-Tinurayu, temple stewa[rd ...]. (r 4) Witness Šamaš-šumu-uṣur, priest of [...]. (r 5)…

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

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Transliteration

NA₄.KIŠIB mEN—AD—PAB ⸢EN⸣ [UN-MEŠ SUM-ni] / mba-ra-a-ḫu a-di UN-⸢MEŠ⸣-[šú] / ⸢m⸣ṭa-bu-ni a-di ⸢UN⸣-[MEŠ-šú] / [m]⸢si⸣-ti-ir-ka-a-nu a-[di UN-MEŠ-šú] / ⸢gab⸣-bu a-na gi-⸢mir⸣-[ti-šú-nu] / ú-piš-ma mdMES—[x x x x x x] / ša md30—PAB-⸢MEŠ⸣—[SU MAN KUR—aš-šur.KI] / i-na ŠÀ bi-⸢lat⸣ [URUDU-MEŠ] / [TAv] ⸢IGI⸣ mEN—⸢AD⸣—[PAB il-qi] / [kas-pu] ga-[mur ta-din] / [x x x] x x [x x x x] / IGI…

Scholarly note

Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335202.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335202). 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/P335202/.

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