SAA 06 266. Purchase of Slaves (ADD 0288)

~700 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P335233

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 6

High confidence

(Beginning destroyed) (1) Šamaš-ayali, [...], (2) Yanuqu, his son, [...] (3) Daluwa, his son, [...] (4) the woman Bauyâ [...] (5) the woman Dimbâ [...] (6) Dadî, [...] (7) the woman San[...] (8) in all [x persons, servants of NN] — (9) [...] has contracted (Break) (r 1) he shall contest in his lawsuit and not succeed. (r 2) (Guaranteed against) seizures of epilepsy for 100 days (and against) fraud forever. (r 4) Witness Idraya, [...]. (r 5) Witness Sin-ṣalâ, [...]. (r 6) Witness Ṭab-šar-Iss[ar, ...]. (r 7) Witness Nabû-ahu-iddina, [...]. (r 8) Witness Ṭab-bet-Issar, [...]. (r 9) Witness…

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

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Transliteration

mdšá-maš—a-a-li LÚ.šá—[x x] / mia-⸢nu⸣-qu DUMU-šú ⸢MÍ⸣.[x x x x x] / mda-⸢lu*⸣-ú*-a* DUMU-šú MÍ.⸢x⸣+[x x x] / MÍ.ba-ú-ia-a [x x x x x] / MÍ.⸢di⸣-im-ba*-⸢a?⸣ [x x x x] / mda-⸢di*-i*⸣ [x x x x] / MÍ.sa-an-⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] / PAB [x ZI-MEŠ ARAD-MEŠ] / ša [mx x x x ú-piš-ma] / m*[x x x x x x x] / [ina de-ni]-⸢šú* DUG₄⸣.DUG₄-[ma là TI] / ṣib-tu be-en-nu a-na [01 me UD-me] / ⸢sa⸣-ar-tu kàl…

Scholarly note

Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335233.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335233). 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/P335233/.

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