Position in chronology
SAA 06 089. Ahi-ṭalli, Governess, Buys Three Slaves (686-XII-18) (ADD 0232)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Seal of Šarranu, owner of the people being sold. (cylinder seal impression) (3) Amurrî, [his] servant; [...]-šar-Aššur; Urkit-ila'i; [...]; a household of all together 3 persons [...] — (6) Ahi-ṭalli, governess of the central city (harem), has contracted and bought them for 4 minas of silver. (9) The money is paid completely. Those people are purchased and acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit or litigation is void. (r 1) Whoever seeks a lawsuit or litigation against the governess shall pay 15 minas of silver. (r 4) (Guaranteed against) seizures for 100 days (and against) fraud forever. (r 6)…
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/P335179/
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Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB mMAN-a-ni / EN UN-MEŠ SUM-an / mIM.04-i ARAD-[šú mx]+⸢x⸣—IM—AN.ŠÁR / MÍ.dur-kit—DINGIR-a.a [x x x x] / É PAB 03* ZI-MEŠ ⸢É?⸣ [x] ⸢x⸣ / tu-piš-ma MÍ.PAB—ṭa-li / MÍ.šá-kín-ti ša URU.MURUB₄—⸢URU⸣ / ina ⸢ŠÀ⸣-bi 04 MA.NA KUG.UD ta-⸢al⸣-qi / kas-pu ga-mur ta-din / UN-MEŠ šu-a-te za-ar-pu / la-qi-u tu-a-ru / de-ni DUG₄.DUG₄ la-šú / man-nu šá TAv MÍ.šá-kín-⸢ti⸣ / de-ni DUG₄.DUG₄ ub-ta-ʾu-u-ni /…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335179.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335179). 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/P335179/.
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