Position in chronology
SAA 06 090. Ahi-ṭalli , Governess, Buys 17 Persons With an Orchard (683-II-l) (ADD 0447)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) Seal of Martu', village manager of the queen; seal of Mardî; a total of two men, servants of the governor of Barhalza, owners of the people being sold. (space for seal impressions) (5) Remut-ilani, his mother and his 3 brothers, a total of 5 persons; Šamaš-balassu and his son; Sasî, his two sons and his wife; Nabû'a, his 3 brothers and his sister, a total of 5 persons; Zabinu, gardener, his wife, and a fruit orchard; in all 17 persons and an orchard in the city of Nabur, servants of Martu' and Mardî — (11) [Ahi-ṭa]lli, gov[erness] of Nineveh, has contracted and [bought them] fr[om these…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB mmar-tú-uʾ* LÚ.GAL—URU-MEŠ ša MÍ—<KUR> / NA₄.KIŠIB mmar-di-i / PAB 02 LÚ-MEŠ ARAD-MEŠ šá LÚ.EN.NAM / ša KUR.bar-ḫal-za EN UN-MEŠ SUM-ni / mrém-ut—DINGIR-MEŠ AMA-šú 03 PAB-MEŠ-šú PAB 05 ZI / mdUTU—TI DUMU-šú msa-si-i 02 DUMU-MEŠ-šú / MÍ-šú mdPA-u-a 03 PAB-MEŠ-šú NIN-šú PAB 05 ZI / mza-bi-nu LÚ.NU.GIŠ.SAR MÍ-šú GIŠ.SAR / šá za-mar PAB 17 ZI-MEŠ GIŠ.SAR ina URU.na-bu-ur* / LÚ.ARAD-MEŠ šá…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335388.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335388). 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/P335388/.
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