Position in chronology
SAA 06 121. Purchase of [...] (698-II-2) (ADD 0475+)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) [Instead of] his seal he im[pressed his] fingernail. (2) Fingernail of Ilu-eriba, (fingernail impressions) (3) [owner of the ...] being sold. (4) [......] Mannu-ki-ahhe (5) [......] ... (6) [...... for] one mina of silver (Break) (r 1) [......] Sin-[...] (r 2) [Witness NN], manservant of Marduk-šarru-uṣur. (r 3) Witness [...]mua, from Nineveh. (r 4) Witness [...]î. (r 5) Witness Ululayu, owner of the copper. (r 6) Witness Šamši-iqbi. (r 7) Witness Nabû-šumu-iškun, scribe, keeper of the tablet. (r 9) Month Iyyar (II), 2nd (day), eponym year of Šulmu-šarri. (r 10) [Witness B]iwasî, ša šēpi guard. (r 11) [Witness ...]ranî, servant of [NN], royal [...]. (r 13) [Witness ...]-beliya, [...]. (r 14) [Witness ...]-šumu-iš[kun, ...]. (r 15) [Witness .......].
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[ku-um NA₄].KIŠIB-šú ṣu-pur-[šú] / [iš]-⸢kun*⸣ ṣu-pur mDINGIR—SU* / [EN x x x x] ta-da-a-ni / [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ mman-nu—GIM—PAB-MEŠ / [x x x x x x x] di / [x x x x x x x x] ⸢01⸣ MA.NA KUG.UD / [x x x x x x x x] md30*—⸢x⸣+[x x x] / [x x x x x x] LÚv.TUR ša mdAMAR.UTU—MAN*—⸢PAB⸣ / [IGI mx]-⸢mu*⸣-u-a DUMU—URU.NINA-a o* / [IGI mx x]-i / [IGI m]ITI.KIN-a.a EN URUDU*-MEŠ / [IGI] m*UTU-ši—E / ⸢IGI⸣…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335414.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335414). 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/P335414/.
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