SAA 06 135. Purchase of Slaves (694-V-29) (ADD 0272)

~700 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P335219

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 6

High confidence

(1) Fingernail of Ši[...], (2) seal of Bur-[...], (3) owners of the people be[ing sold]. (space for seals and nailmarks) (Break) (r 2) [Witness NN]. Witness Šulm[u-..., ...] of the queen. (r 4) [Witne]ss Ilu-liphur. (r 5) Witness Libbalayu, keeper of the tablet. (r 6) Month Ab (V), 29th day, eponym year of Ilu-isse'a, the governor of Damascus.

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

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Transliteration

ṣu-pur mši-[x x x x x x] / NA₄.KIŠIB mbur-⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] / EN UN-MEŠ ⸢SUM⸣-[ni] / [x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ / [x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ / [x x x x x] x x [x x x x] / [IGI m]⸢x x⸣+[x] IGI* m⸢DI*-mu*⸣—[x x x] / [o*] (blank) ša MÍ—É.GAL / IGI mDINGIR—lip*-ḫur / IGI mURU.ŠÀ—URU-a.a ⸢ṣa⸣-bit ṭup-pi / ITI.NE UD 29-KÁM lim-me mDINGIR—KI-ia / LÚ.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 P335219.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335219). 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/P335219/.

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