Position in chronology
SAA 06 144. Fragment of a Slave Sale (692-IX-4) (ADD 0189)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(Beginning destroyed) (2) [Aš]šur-[..., ... of] Dur-[Šarruken, has contracted and bought him from B]abil[ayu for x] shekels of silver. (6) [The mon]ey is [paid] completely. That man [is purchased and acqu]ired. Any revocation, [lawsuit] or litigation is void. (10) [Whoever] breaks the contract [shall place x minas of silve]r and 10 [minas of gold] (Break) (r 1) [Witness ...]ša. (r 2) Witness Is[sar]-rabi. (r 3) Month Kislev (IX), 4th day, eponym year of Zazaya.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[x x x x] an* [x x x] / [ú-piš-ma maš]-šur*—[x x x] / [LÚ.x x] ⸢URU*⸣.BÀD*—[MAN—GIN] / [ina ŠÀ x] GÍN KUG.UD / [TAv IGI m]⸢KÁ*⸣.DINGIR*.⸢KI*⸣-[a.a] / [il-qi] kas-pu gam-mur [o] / [ta-ad-din] LÚ šu-a-tú [o] / [za-rip laq]-qi tu-a-ru [o] / [de-e-nu] DUG₄.DUG₄ la-áš-[šú] / [man-nu šá] GIL-u-ni [o] / [x MA.NA KUG].UD 10 [MA.NA KUG.GI] / [IGI mx x x x]-šá* / [IGI m]d⸢15?—GAL*⸣ / [ITI].GAN UD 04-KÁM / ⸢lim⸣-me mza-za-ia
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335138.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335138). 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/P335138/.
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