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SAA 06 112. Se’-madi, Village Manager, Buys 6 Persons and an Estate (ADD 0455)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(Beginning destroyed) (2) [......] his son [...], (3) [..., a] suckling [child], a total of 6 per[sons, servants of] Bi-D[adi]; (4) [an estate of x hectares of land, x] thousand 600 vines [...], a well, in the town [...] — (7) S[e'-madi], village manager [of the crown prince] has contracted (Break) (r 1) [He shall return the money] tenfold t[o its owners]. He shall contest [in] his lawsuit [and not succeed]. (r 3) Witness Manasseh, [...]. (r 4) Witness Sanî, chief [...] of the town of Zi[...]. (r 6) Witness Se'-nuri, [...]. (r 7) Witness Bel-mu[...], horse trainer of the royal bo[dyguard]. (r 8) Witness [...]. (r 9) Witness [...]-matu-taqqin. (r 10) Witness [...]... (r 11) Witness [...]la [from] the town Amu[...]. (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[x x x x x x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x x] / [x x x x x x x] DUMU-šú ⸢x⸣+[x x x] / [x x x DUMU] ⸢GA*⸣ PAB ⸢06⸣ ZI-[MEŠ ARAD-MEŠ] / [ša? m]bi—⸢da*⸣-[di É x ANŠE A.ŠÀ] / [x]-lim-06*-me* GIŠ*.⸢til*⸣-[lit x x x] / ⸢PÚ⸣ ina ŠÀ-bi URU*.[x x x x x] / ú-piš-ma m⸢se⸣-[eʾ—ma-a-di] / LÚv.GAL—URU-MEŠ [ša DUMU—MAN] / [a]-⸢na*⸣ [10]-MEŠ*-⸢te*⸣ [a-na EN-MEŠ-šú GUR] / [ina de]-ni-šú DUG₄.⸢DUG₄⸣-[ma la i-laq-qi] / [IGI…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335396.
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/P335396/..
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/P335396/.
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