SAA 06 106. Aplaya Buys Slaves (688) (ADD 0264)

~700 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P335211

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 6

High confidence

(Beginning destroyed) (1) [Any revocation, lawsu]it, or litigation [is void]. (2) [Whoe]ver in the future, at any time, says: "I did not sell the people," whether Iqisu or his sons, grandsons or brothers, who says: "I did not sell the people," shall return the silver tenfold to its owners. (10) Witness Šamaš-edu-lešir. (11) Witness Bel-d[uri]. (12) Witness Barruqu. (13) Witness Nabû-še[zib]. (r 1) [Witness] Šamaš-šumu-iddina. (r 2) Witness Nabû-iqišanni. (r 3) Witness Humamati. (r 4) Witness Bel-[...]. (r 5) Witness Adad-ka[šir]. (r 6) Witness Issaran-me[si]. (r 7) [Month ..., ...th day, epon]ym year of Iddin-ahhe, [governor of Dur-Šarr]uk[en]. (Rest destroyed)

State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).

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Transliteration

[de]-⸢e*⸣-nu* DUG₄.⸢DUG₄⸣ [la-áš-šú] / [man]-nu šá ina ur-⸢kiš⸣ ina ma-te-e-me* / ⸢i⸣-qa-bu-u-ni ma-a UN-MEŠ / la-a ⸢ad*⸣-din lu-u mi-qi-si / lu-u DUMU-MEŠ-šu lu-u DUMU—DUMU-MEŠ-šú / lu-u PAB-MEŠ-šú šá i-qab-bu-ni ma-a / ⸢UN⸣-MEŠ la-a ad-din KUG.UD-MEŠ / a-na 10-a-te a-na EN-MEŠ-šú / ú-ta-ra / IGI mdUTU—DIL—SI.[SÁ] / IGI mEN—⸢BÀD⸣ / IGI [m]bar-ruq-⸢qu⸣ / IGI mdPA—še-[zib] / [IGI] mdUTU—MU*—SUM-na…

Scholarly note

Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335211.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Sippar-Yahrurum (mod. Tell Abu Habbah) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335211). 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/P335211/.

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