Position in chronology
SAA 06 267. Purchase of a Slave (677-X-1) (ADD 0194)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Seal of Se'-sakâ, major-domo, owner of the man being sold. (three stamp seals) (3) [...]rî, servant [of Se'-sak]â, major-domo — (5) [Šer]-uari [has contracted and bought him] (Break) (r 1) Witness [Si]n-belu-uṣur. (r 2) Witness Sin-zeru-iddina. (r 3) Witness Se'-šumki. (r 4) Witness Salsali, scribe. (r 5) Month Tebet (X), 1st day, eponym year of Abi-ram.
Source: 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/P335142/
Why it matters
Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB mse-e—sa-ka-a / ⸢LÚv⸣.GAL—É EN LÚ SUM-nu / m*[x x]-ri-i : ARAD-šú / [ša mse-e—sa]-ka-a LÚ.GAL—É / [ú-piš-ma mšér]—⸢ú⸣-a-ri / IGI [m]⸢30—EN*—PAB⸣ / IGI m30—NUMUN*—SUM-na / IGI mse-e—šúm-ki / IGI msal-sa-li LÚv.A.BA / ITI.AB UD 01-KAM / lim-mu mAD—ra-mi*
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335142.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335142). 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/P335142/.
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