Position in chronology
SAA 06 310. Remanni-Adad Buys a Slave (667-XII-16) (ADD 0185)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) Seal of Šamaš-ila'i, [...] of Dur-Šarruken, owner of the man [being sold]. (cylinder seal impression) (Break) (r 1) [He shall plac]e [x minas of silver and x minas of gol]d in the lap of Ištar of N[ineveh, and shall ret]urn the money tenfold to its owner. (r 4) [Witness] Uarbis, 'third man.' (r 5) [Witness] Šamaš-šarru-uṣur, chariot driver. (r 6) Witness Sakkannu, chariot driver. (r 7) Witness Nabû-šezib, ditto. (r 8) Witness [Na]bû-eriba, deputy of the team-commander. (r 9) Witness Mannu-ki-Harran, horse trainer of the open chariotry. (r 10) Witness Ilu-mušezib, ditto. (r 11) Witness…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
⸢NA₄⸣.KIŠIB mdUTU—DINGIR-a.a [LÚ.x x] / ša URU.BÀD—MAN—GIN EN LÚ [SUM-ni] / [x MA.NA KUG].⸢GI* ina* bur*-ki* d*15* NINA*⸣.[KI] / [i-šak]-⸢kan*⸣ kas-pu ana 10-MEŠ-te ana EN-šú / [ú-ta*]-ra / [IGI m]⸢ú⸣-a-ar-bi-is ⸢LÚ.03.U₅*⸣ / [IGI] mdUTU—MAN—PAB LÚ.mu-DIB—PA-MEŠ / IGI msa-kan LÚ.mu-DIB—PA-MEŠ / IGI ⸢md⸣PA—še-zib LÚ.: <(mu-DIB—PA-MEŠ)> / IGI m[d]⸢PA⸣—SU LÚ.02-u ša LÚ.GAL—ú-⸢rat⸣ / IGI…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335135.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335135). 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/P335135/.
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