Position in chronology
SAA 06 089. Ahi-ṭalli, Governess, Buys Three Slaves (686-XII-18) (ADD 0232)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(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)…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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.earth/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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