SAA 06 192. A Broken Slave Sale (682) (ADD 0276)

~700 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P335223

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 6

High confidence

(1) Seal of Sip[ranu], owner of the people [being sold]. (two circular stamp seals) (3) Ahu'a [......] (Break) (r 1) [Witness ...]-Issar, chariot driver. (r 2) [Witness Aššur-il]a'i, 'third man.' (r 3) Witness Bel-isse'a, intelligence officer. (r 4) Witness Sin-belu-uṣur, cohort commander. (r 5) Witness Hinnumu, (of the) royal corps. (r 6) Witness Šumaya, royal corps. (r 7) Witness Remuttu, royal corps. (r 8) Witness Ahunî, royal corps. (r 9) Witness Palhu-šezib, merchant. (e. 1) [Month ..., ...th day], eponym year of Nabû-šarru-uṣur, [governor] of Marqasa.

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

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Transliteration

NA₄.KIŠIB msi-ip-[ra-a-nu] / EN UN-MEŠ ⸢SUM⸣ / mPAB-u-a ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] / [IGI mx x—d]⸢15?⸣ LÚv.mu-kil—KUŠ.⸢PA*⸣-[MEŠ] / IGI m[AN.ŠÁR—DINGIR]-⸢a⸣.a LÚv.03-šú / IGI mEN—KI-⸢ia⸣ LÚv.mu-tir—ṭè-me / IGI md30—EN—PAB LÚv.GAL—ki-ṣir / IGI mḫi-nu-mu ki-ṣir—MAN / IGI mšu-ma-a ki-ṣir—MAN / IGI mrém-ut ki-ṣir—MAN / IGI ma-ḫu-ni-i* ki-ṣir—MAN / IGI mpal-ḫu—še-zib / LÚ.DAM.QAR / [x x x x x x lim]-me mdPA—MAN—PAB / [LÚ.GAR.KUR] ⸢URU⸣.mar-qa-sa

Scholarly note

Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335223.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) ? — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335223). 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/P335223/.

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