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SAA 06 140. Sin-šarru-uṣur Purchases Slaves (ADD 0262)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) S[in-šarru-uṣur] has contracted and [bought them] for 1 1/2 minas and 5 shekels of sil[ver]. (3) The money is paid completely. The people ar[e purchased] and acquired. Any lawsuit or litigation is vo[id]. (5) Whoever in the future, at any time, breaks [the contract], whether Sin-nadin-ahi or his sons or [rel]atives, and seeks a lawsuit or litigation against Sin-[šar]ru-uṣur and his sons, shall pay 10 minas of silver, 5 minas of gold, and four white [horses] to Sin residing in [Harran], and shall return the silver tenfold [t]o its owners. [He shall] contest in [his…
Source: 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/P335209/
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Transliteration
[x] ⸢x x x⸣ ú-⸢piš⸣-ma m⸢30*⸣—[LUGAL—PAB] / ina ŠÀ-bi 01 1/2 MA.NA 05 GÍN-MEŠ KUG.⸢UD⸣ [il-qi] / kas-pu gam-mur ta-din UN-MEŠ za-[ar-pu] / TI-ú de-ni DUG₄.DUG₄ la-áš-[šú] / man-nu ša ina ur-kiš ina ma-ti-ma ⸢GIL⸣-[u-ni] / lu-u m30—SUM—PAB lu-u DUMU-MEŠ-šú lu-[u mám]-⸢ma*-nu*⸣-[šú] / de-ni DUG₄.DUG₄ TAv m30—⸢LUGAL*-PAB*⸣ / TAv DUMU-MEŠ-šú ub-ta-u-[ni] / 10 MA.NA KUG.UD 05 MA.NA KUG.GI 04…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335209.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) ? — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335209). 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/P335209/.
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