Position in chronology
SAA 06 306. Duplicate of the Previous Text (669) (ADD 0187)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(Beginning destroyed) (1) [Nabû-belu-uṣur, baker, servant] o[f Mukin-Aš]šur — (3) [Rema]nni-Adad, chief [chariot]-driver, [has contracted], purchased, and acquired him for [one mi]na of silver by the (mina) of Carchemish. (6) The money is paid completely. That servant is purchased and acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is void. (9) Whoever in the future, at any time, whether Mukin-Aššur or his sons or brothers, seeks a lawsuit or litigation against Remanni-Adad and his sons, [shall pay 10 minas of silver. He shall contest] in his lawsuit [and not] succeed. (r 3) (Guaranteed…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[mdPA—EN—PAB LÚv.NINDA ARAD]-šú / [šá mmu-GI.NA—aš]-šur / [ú-piš-ma mrém-a]-⸢ni⸣—d10 / [LÚ.DIB]—⸢KUŠ.PA-MEŠ dan⸣-nu ina ŠÀ / [01 MA].⸢NA⸣ KUG.UD ina URU šá* gar-ga-mis / i-zi-rip i-si-qi kas-pu gam-mur / ta-ad-din ARAD šú-a-tú za-rip / laq-qi tú-a-ru de-e-nu DUG₄.DUG₄ / la-⸢áš⸣-šú man-nu šá ina ur-kiš ina ma-te-ma / lu-u mmu-GI.NA—daš-šur / lu-u DUMU-MEŠ-šú lu-u PAB-MEŠ-šú / TAv mrém-a-ni—d10 /…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335137.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335137). 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/P335137/.
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