SAA 06 141. A Fragmentary Sale Document (692-1) (ADD 0158)

~700 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P335109

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 6

High confidence

(1) [Seal of ...], owner [of the ... being sold]. (stamp seal impression) (Break) (r 1) [He shall return the money tenfold] t[o its owner]. (r 2) [He shall contest in his] law[suit and] not [succeed]. (r 4) Witness [...]. (r 5) Witness Issar-[...]. (r 6) Witness Bel-[...]. (r 7) Witness Ba[...]. (r 8) Witness Ta[b ...]. (r.e. 9) Witness [...]. (e. 1) [NN], scribe. (e. 2) Month Nisan (I), [...th day, epony]m year of Zazê.

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

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Transliteration

[NA₄.KIŠIB mx x x x] / ⸢EN⸣ [x x x x x] / a-⸢na⸣ [EN-šú GUR-ra] / ina de-[ni-šú DUG₄.DUG₄-ma] / la [i-la-qí] / IGI m⸢x⸣+[x x x] / IGI m15—[x x x] / IGI mEN—[x x x] / IGI mba*-[x x x] / IGI m⸢tab?⸣-[x x x] / IGI m[x x x x] / [mx x x] LÚv.A.BA ITI.BARAG o* / [UD x-KAM lim]-⸢mu⸣ mza-ze-e

Scholarly note

Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335109.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335109). 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/P335109/.

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