Position in chronology
SAA 06 274. Ahi-milki Buys a Slave (676-VIII-17) (ADD 0175)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) Seal of Sa'abu, owner of the man being sold. (two stamp seals) (3) Laduqqî, a servant of Sa'abu — (5) Ahi-milki has contracted and bought him for two minas of silver by the mina of Carchemish. (7) The money is paid completely. That man is purchased and acquired. Any revocation, lawsu[it, or lit]igat[ion is void]. (10) Whoever in the fut[ure, at any time], lodges a compl[aint] (Break) (r 1) and seeks a [lawsuit or litigation] aga[inst Ahi-milki, his sons and] grandsons, shall place 20 minas of silver (and) [x minas of gold] in the lap of Ištar resid[ing in ..., and shall return] the money…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB msa-a-AD / EN LÚv SUM-an-ni / mla-du-qi-i ARAD-šú / ša msa-a-AD ú-piš-ma / mPAB—mil-ki ina ŠÀ-bi 02 MA.NA KUG.UD / ina 01 MA.NA-e šá URU.gar-ga-mis / il-qi kas-pu ga-mur ta-ad-din / ⸢LÚv⸣ UR₅-MEŠ zar*-pu la-⸢qi⸣ / ⸢tu-a⸣-ri de-e-⸢nu* DUG₄*.DUG₄⸣ [la-áš-šú] / man-nu šá ina ur-[kiš ina ma-te-ma] / i-za-qa-⸢pa*⸣-[ni x x x x] / ⸢x⸣ [x x x x x x x] / ⸢šá* TAv⸣ [mPAB—mil-ki DUMU-MEŠ-šú] /…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335125.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335125). 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/P335125/.
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