SAA 06 179. Purchase of Slaves (683?-IV) (ADD 0300)

~700 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P335245

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 6

High confidence

(1) Seal of [NN], owner of the people [being sold]. (stamp seal impressions) (Break) (r 1) [shall pla]ce [...... in the lap of ...... and shall return] the mone[y tenfold to its owners]. He shall con[test in] his [lawsu]it [and not succeed]. (r 3) [Witne]ss Silim-[...]. (r 4) [Witness] Hand[î, ...]. (r 5) [Witness] Se'-na[...]. (r 6) [Witne]ss Hu[...]. (r 7) [Witness] Ya-ah[he]. (r 8) [Witness] Nabû-ahu-[iddina, ...]. (r 9) [Witness] Milki-r[amu]. (r 10) Month Tammuz (IV), [...th day], eponym year of Mannu-[ki-Adad].

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

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Transliteration

NA₄.KIŠIB m[x x x x x] / EN UN-MEŠ [ta-da-ni] / [GAR]-⸢an⸣ kas*-⸢pu*⸣ [a-na 10-MEŠ a-na EN-MEŠ-šú GUR] / [ina de]-⸢ni*-šú* DUG₄⸣.[DUG₄-ma x x x x] / ⸢IGI⸣ msi-lim—⸢x⸣+[x x x x] / [IGI] mḫa-an-di-[i x x x] / [IGI] mse*—na*-⸢x⸣+[x x x x] / ⸢IGI⸣ mḫu-⸢x⸣+[x x x] / [IGI] mia—⸢PAB*⸣-[MEŠ] / [IGI] mdPA—PAB—[PAB? x x] / [IGI] mmil-ki—⸢ra⸣-[mu] / ITI.ŠU [UD x-KÁM] / lim-mu mman-nu—[ki—dIM?]

Scholarly note

Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335245.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335245). 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/P335245/.

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