Position in chronology
SAA 06 219. Mannu-ki-Arbail Buys a Servant (ADD 1157)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(Beginning destroyed) (1) [Ah]i-le'iti, his servant — (2) Mannu-ki-Arbail has contracted, purchased, and acquired him fr[om] Zarî for 1 1/2 minas of silver by the mina of Carchemish. (7) The money is paid completely. That man is purchased and acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit, [or li]tigation is void. (11) (Guaranteed against) epilepsy for 100 days (and against) [fr]aud forever. (r 1) Whoever in the future, at any time, whether Zarî or his sons, grandsons or brothers, or his labour-duty superior, seeks a lawsuit or litigation against Mannu-ki-Arbail, his sons and grandsons, (r 7) shall place…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[m]⸢PAB*⸣—li-ti ⸢ARAD⸣-šú / ú*-⸢piš*⸣-ma* mman-nu—⸢ki⸣—URU.arba-ìl / ⸢TAv*⸣ [IGI] mNUMUN*-i* / a-na 01 1/2 MA.NA KUG.UD-MEŠ / a-na 01 ma-né*-e* ša KUR.gar*-ga*-⸢mis*⸣ / i-zi-rip i-si-qi / kas-pu gam-mur ta-din-ni / ⸢LÚ⸣ šu-a-tum za-ar-pi / laq-qi tu-a-ru de-nu* / ⸢DUG₄⸣.DUG₄ la-áš-šú / [ṣib]-⸢tú*⸣ EN*-e-nu a-na 01 me UD-me / [sa]-⸢ar⸣-tú ina kal MU.AN.NA-MEŠ / man-nu ša ina ur-kiš ina ma-ti-mu /…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335939.
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/P335939/..
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/P335939/.
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