Position in chronology
SAA 06 174. Purchase of a Slave (685-XII-20) (ADD 1170+)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Seal of Mutaqqin-ilu, owner of the man. (cylinder seal impression) (2) Ša-Ištar-dubbu, his servant — (3) Ubru-[...] has contracted, purchased, and bought him from Mutaqqin-ilu for 20 shekels of silver. (7) The money is paid completely. That man is purchased and acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is void. (r 3) (Guaranteed against) seizures for 100 days (and against) fraud forever. (r 4) Whoever transgresses [shall return] the money tenfold to its owners. He shall litigate in his lawsuit and not suc[ceed]. (r 8) [Witness ...]bisî. (r 9) [Witness] Nuhšaya, cohort commander of…
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/P335952/
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Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB mmu-LAL—DINGIR EN LÚ o* / mša*—15—du*-⸢bu* ARAD*-šú⸣ o* / ú-tap-piš mSUḪUŠ—[x x x] / TAv IGI mmu-LAL—DINGIR [o] / ina ŠÀ-bi 20 GÍN-MEŠ KUG.UD / i-zi-rip i-si-qi / kas-pu ga-mur ta-din / LÚ šu-a-tú za-rip la-qi / tu-a-ru de-nu DUG₄.DUG₄ la*-šú / ṣib-tú ina 01 me UD-me / sa-ár-tú ina kàl UD-me / ⸢man-nu⸣ ša* ib*-bal-kát-u-⸢ni⸣ / kas*-⸢pu* a⸣-na 10-MEŠ ina EN-MEŠ-šú [GUR-ra] / ⸢ina⸣…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335952.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Theodore Kwasman and Simo Parpola , Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part I: Tiglath-Pileser III through Esarhaddon (State Archives of Assyria, 6), 1991. Lemmatised by Melanie Groß, 2010–2011, as part of the FWF-funded research project "Royal Institutional Households in First Millennium BC Mesopotamia" (S 10802-G18) directed by Heather D. Baker at the University of Vienna. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P335952/..
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/P335952/.
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