Position in chronology
SAA 06 061. Bahianu Redeems a Bondman (700-V-5) (ADD 0176+)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) Inst[ead of their seal]s they impressed their fingernails. (2) Fingern[ail of Zakku]r, fingernail of Dukur-il, owners of the man being sold. (fingernail impressions) (4) Mannu-ki-Arbail son of Ahi-Yau — (5) Bahianu has contracted and released him [fr]om Zakkur and Dukur-il [for] 30 minas of copper. (8) [The money] is paid completely. That man [is purchased] and acquired. Any revocation, lawsu[it, or litig]ation is void. (10) Whoever in the fu]ture, at any [time], lodges a complaint shall pay [10 mi]nas of silver to [redeem] the man. (13) [(Guaranteed against) seizures] of epilepsy for 100…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
⸢ku⸣-[um NA₄.KIŠIB-šu-nu] ⸢ṣu⸣-pur-šú-nu GAR-⸢nu⸣ / ṣu-⸢pur⸣ [mza]-ku*-ri ṣu-[pur] mdu-kur—DINGIR / EN LÚ ta-⸢da⸣-ni / mman-nu—ki—URU.arba-ìl DUMU-šú ša* mPAB-ia-u / ú-piš-ma mba-ḫi-a-nu / [TAv] ⸢pa*⸣-an mza-ku-ri TAv IGI mdu-kur—DINGIR / [ina ŠÀ]-⸢bi*⸣ 30 MA.NA URUDU-MEŠ ip-ta-⸢ṭar⸣ / [kas-pu] ga-mur ta-din LÚ šú-a-[tú] / [za]-⸢rip*⸣ laq*-qi* tu-a-ru de-⸢e⸣-[nu*] / [DUG₄].DUG₄* la*-áš*-šú man-nu…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335126.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335126). 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/P335126/.
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