Position in chronology
SAA 06 103. Aplaya, 'Third Man' of the Crown Prince, Buys a Slave (694-VII-12) (ADD 0201)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) Seal of Zunbu, the owner selling his son. (blank seal space) (3) Nergal-eṭir, his son — (4) Aplaya, 'third man' of Arda-Mullissu, the crown prince, has contracted and boug[ht] him from Zunbu for 2 minas of silver by the m[ina] of Carchemish. (9) The money [is] paid [completely]. His son is pur[chased and acquired. Any re]vocation lawsu[it or litigation is void]. (12) [(Guaranteed against) seizures of epilepsy for] 100 days (and against) [fraud forever]. (Break) (r 1) [Witness ...]bâ, [...]. (r 2) (Six broken lines with names of witnesses) (r 8) [Witness] Issar-iqi[ša]. (r 9) Month Tishri (VII), 12th day, eponym year of Ilu-isse'a.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB mzu-un-bu / EN DUMU-šú SUM-ni / mdU.GUR—KAR-ir DUMU-šú / ú-piš-ma mA-ía LÚ.03-šú / šá mARAD—dNIN.LÍL DUMU—MAN / TAv IGI mzu-un-⸢bi⸣ / ina ŠÀ 02 MA.NA KUG.UD ina 01 ⸢MA⸣.[NA] / šá URU.gar-ga-mis i-[zi-rip] / i-si*-qi kas-pu [gam-mur] / ta-din DUMU-šú za-[rip laq-qi] / ⸢tu*⸣-a*-ru de-nu [DUG₄.DUG₄ la-áš-šú] / ⸢x x⸣ 01 me UD-me* [x x x x x] / [IGI mx x]-ba*-⸢a*⸣ [x x x] / [IGI mx x]-nu [x…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335148.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Theodore Kwasman and Simo Parpola , Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part I: Tiglath-Pileser III through Esarhaddon (State Archives of Assyria, 6), 1991. Lemmatised by Melanie Groß, 2010–2011, as part of the FWF-funded research project "Royal Institutional Households in First Millennium BC Mesopotamia" (S 10802-G18) directed by Heather D. Baker at the University of Vienna. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P335148/..
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/P335148/.
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