SAA 06 134. Fragment of a Slave Sale (694-V-15) (ADD 0281)

~700 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P237807

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 6

High confidence

(Beginning destroyed) (r 1) [He shall return the money tenfold to] its [owners. He shall con]test [in his lawsuit] and n[ot succeed]. (r 3) (Guaranteed against) [seizur]es of epilepsy for 100 days and (against) fraud forever. (r 6) Witness Abdâ, haruspex. (r 7) Witness Ahabû. (r 8) Witness Pulu, tanner. (r 9) Witness Hadasâ, merchant. (r 10) Witness Bir-Ša[maš], merchant. (r 11) Witness Issar-duri. (r 12) Witness Inurta-ila'i. (r 13) Witness Nabû-ušallim, scribe. (r 14) Month Ab (V), 15th day, eponym year of Ilu-isse'a, governor of Damascus.

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

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Transliteration

[a-na 10-MEŠ a-na EN-MEŠ]-šú* / [GUR ina de-ni-šú] ⸢DUG₄⸣.DUG₄-ma / ⸢la⸣ [i-laq-qi ṣib]-⸢ti⸣ be-en-nu / a-na 01 me UD-MEŠ sa-ar-ti / a-na EGIR UD-MEŠ / IGI mab-da-a LÚv.ḪAL? / IGI mPAB—a-bu-u / IGI mpu-ú-lu LÚv.AŠGAB / IGI mḫa-da-sa-a LÚv.DAM.QAR / IGI mbir—dšá-⸢maš⸣ LÚv.DAM.QAR / IGI md15—BÀD / IGI mdMAŠ—DINGIR-a.a / IGI mdPA—DI-im LÚv.A.BA / ITI.NE UD 15-KÁM / lim-me mDINGIR—KI-ia / LÚv.GAR.KUR URU.di-maš-qa

Scholarly note

Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P237807.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P237807). 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/P237807/.

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