Position in chronology
SAA 06 185. Sin-remanni Buys Slaves (ADD 0506)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(Beginning destroyed) (2) [The money is pa]id [completely. Those people are purchased and acqu]ired. [Any revocation, lawsuit, or liti]gation is [void. (5) [Whoever] in the future, [in distant days, com]es forward, [whether PN] the deputy, [or his sons or] his grandsons [or t]he governor of Arrapha, (r 1) [whoever c]omes forward and institutes a lawsuit [or litigation] against Sin-remanni, [his sons (or) grand]sons, saying: "[The money] is not paid completely, that [property] is not sold," (r 5) shall place [x] minas of silver in the lap of Ištar [of] Nineveh, and shall place 2 minas of pure gold in the lap of Ninurta. (r 10) Witness Šarru-emuranni, royal bodyguard. (r 11) Witness Šulmu-beli-lašme, 'third man'. (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[x x x x x x x x x x] ⸢tú*⸣ / [x x kas-pu gam-mur ta]-din* / [UN?-MEŠ šu-a-tu zar-pu la]-⸢qí*⸣-ʾu*-u* / [tu-a-ru de-e-nu] ⸢DUG₄⸣.DUG₄* / [la-áš-šú man-nu ša] ⸢ur-kiš*⸣ / [ina EGIR UD-MEŠ e]-⸢la*⸣-an-ni / [lu-u mx x x x] LÚv.02-⸢e⸣ o* / [lu-u DUMU-šú lu-u] DUMU—DUMU-šú / [lu-u] ⸢LÚv*⸣.EN.NAM ša URU.⸢arrap-ḫa⸣ / [šá e]-la-an-ni TAv md30—re-man-ni / [DUMU-MEŠ-šú DUMU]—DUMU-MEŠ-šú de-e-nu /…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335444.
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/P335444/..
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/P335444/.
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