Position in chronology
SAA 06 300. Remanni-Adad Acquires a Camel Driver (670-I-28) (ADD 0202)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) Seal of Sa'uti, seal of Bel-šarru-usur, seal of Akburu, (4) [a total of 3 gentl]emen, owners of the man being sold. (stamp seal impressions) (5) [NN], camel [driver], servant [of these gentlemen] — (7) [Remanni-Adad, chariot] dri[ver] has contracted (Break) (r 1) [He shall contest in his lawsuit and not] suc[ceed]. (r 2) [Witness Z]ababa-eriba, [chariot driver]. (r 3) [Witness N]abû-šezib, [ditto]. (r 4) [Witness Mannu]-ki-Aššur, [ditto]. (r 5) [Witness Mannu]-ki-šarri, [ditto]. (r 6) [Witness] Dannaya, [ditto]. (r 7) [Witness Nabû]-zeru-iddina, [ditto]. (r 8) [Wit]ness Nabû-šarru-uṣur, [cohort commander]. (r 9) Month Nisan (I), 28th day, eponym year of Šulmu-beli-lašme.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
⸢NA₄.KIŠIB⸣ msa-⸢ʾu⸣-ú-ti / ⸢NA₄.KIŠIB⸣ mdEN—MAN—PAB / ⸢NA₄.KIŠIB⸣ mak-bu-ru / [PAB 03] ⸢LÚ*⸣-MEŠ* EN* LÚ SUM-ni / [mx x x x LÚ.UŠ]—⸢gam⸣-mal-MEŠ LÚ.ARAD-šú-nu / [šá LÚ-MEŠ an-nu-te] up-piš-ma / [mrém-a-ni—dIM LÚ].⸢mu*-kil*⸣—[KUŠ.PA-MEŠ] / [la] i-⸢laq⸣-[qi] / [IGI md]⸢za⸣-ba₄-ba₄—SU LÚ.[DIB—KUŠ.PA-MEŠ] / [IGI md]⸢PA*⸣—še-zib LÚ.[:.] <(DIB—KUŠ.PA-MEŠ)> / [IGI mman-nu]—⸢ki⸣—aš-šur LÚ.[:.]…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335149.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335149). 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/P335149/.
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