Position in chronology
SAA 06 203. Fragment of a Purchase of Slaves (680-II) (ADD 0299)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) Seal of [......], (2) Seal of Ubru-[...], (3) Seal of Han[...], (4) [Seal of] Danqu-d[ibbi-šarri], (5) [gentlem]en, owners of the people [being sold]. (seal impressions) (Break) (r 1) Witness Sam[e', ...]. (r 2) Month Iyyar (II), eponym ye[ar of Dananu], in the reign of Es[arhaddon], king of As[syria].
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB mina-[x x x x] / NA₄.KIŠIB mSUḪUŠ—[x x x] / NA₄.KIŠIB mḫa-an-[x x x] / [NA₄.KIŠIB] mSIG₅—⸢INIM?⸣-[MEŠ—LUGAL] / [LÚ]-MEŠ EN UN-MEŠ [SUM-ni] / ⸢IGI⸣ msa-me-[eʾ x x x] / ITI.GUD lim-⸢mu⸣ [mda-na-nu?] / ti-ri-ṣi maš-⸢šur⸣—[PAB—AŠ] / MAN KUR—[aš-šur.KI]
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335244.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335244). 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/P335244/.
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