Position in chronology
SAA 06 309. Remanni-Adad Buys a Eunuch (667-I) (ADD 0200)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) Seal of Šamaš-[abu'a], owner of the man [being sold]. (cylinder seal impression) (3) Ahu-lamur, eunuch, servant of Šamaš-abu'a — (5) Remanni-Adad, chief chariot driver of Assurbanipal, king of Assyria, has contracted and bought him [for x mi]nas of silver. (9) [The money] is paid [completely]. That ma[n is purchased and acquired. Any rev]ocation, [lawsuit or litigation is void]. (Break) (r 1) [...] shall place [x minas of silver (and) x minas of go]ld [in the lap of] Ištar residing in Nineveh, and shall return the money tenfold to its owners. He shall contest in his lawsuit and not…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB mdUTU—[AD-u-a] / EN LÚ [SUM-ni] / mPAB—la-mur LÚv.⸢SAG⸣ / LÚv.ARAD-šú ša mdUTU—AD-u-a / ú-piš-ma m⸢rém⸣-a-na—dIM / LÚv.mu-kil—KUŠ.PA-MEŠ dan-⸢nu⸣ / ⸢ša⸣ maš-šur—DÙ—A MAN KUR—aš-šur / [ina ŠÀ x] ⸢MA*⸣.NA* ⸢KUG⸣.UD il-qí / [kas-pu gam-mur] ⸢ta*⸣-din ⸢LÚ* šu*⸣-a*-tú / [za-rip laq-qi tu]-⸢a⸣-ru [de-e-nu] / [x MA.NA KUG.UD x MA.NA KUG].⸢GI*⸣ / [ina bur-ki d]⸢IŠ⸣.TAR / ⸢a-ši-bat URU.NINA.KI⸣…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335147.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Sippar-Yahrurum (mod. Tell Abu Habbah) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335147). 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/P335147/.
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