Position in chronology
SAA 06 166. Fragmentary Sale of Slaves (686-IV-1) (ADD 0285)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) Seal of Sar-uarri, owner of the people being sold. (blank seal space) (3) seal of Mar-samsi, deputy, (4) seal of Se'-..., major-domo, (5) seal of Se'-hati, city overseer, (6) seal of Nahira[nu, chari]ot driver, (Break) (r 1) [He shall contest in his lawsuit and] not succeed. (r 2) Witness Zizî, merchant. (r 3) Witness Paruṭṭu. (r 4) Witness Iqbi-ilu. Witness Sin-naṣir. (r 5) Witness Abdi-Azuzi. Witness Kakkussu. (r 6) Witness Urda-Šamaš. Witness Šamaš-eriba. (r 7) Witness Na'di-ilu. Wi[tness] Marduk-eriba. (r 8) Witness Sin-naṣir, herald. (r 9) Month Tammuz (IV), 1st day, eponym year of Bel-emuranni, commander-in-chief.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB msar-ú-ar-ri / EN UN-MEŠ SUM-ni / NA₄.KIŠIB mmar—sam-si LÚ.02-u / NA₄.KIŠIB mse-e—⸢NU?⸣ LÚ.GAL—É / NA₄.KIŠIB mse-e—ḫa-⸢ti*⸣ LÚ.šá—UGU—URU / NA₄.KIŠIB mna*-ḫi-⸢ra*⸣-[x LÚ].⸢mu⸣-kil—KUŠ.PA-MEŠ / [x x x x x x x x x] la laq-qi / IGI mzi-zi-i LÚ.DAM.QAR / IGI mpa-ru-ṭu / IGI miq-bi—DINGIR IGI md30—PAB-ir / IGI mab-di—a-⸢zu*⸣-zi IGI mka-ku-si / IGI mARAD—dUTU [IGI md]UTU—SU / IGI mI—DINGIR ⸢IGI⸣ [md]ŠÚ—SU / IGI md30—PAB-ir LÚ.NÍGIR / ITI.ŠU UD 01-KÁM lim-mu mdEN—IGI.LAL-an-ni / LÚ.tur-tan-nu
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335230.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335230). 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/P335230/.
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