Position in chronology
SAA 06 312. Remanni-Adad Buys 5 Servants (666-IV-20) (ADD 0801)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) Seal of [Bel]-aplu-iddina, chief s[ing]er of Til-Barsip, owner of the people being sold. (two stamp seal impressions) (4) [Gabbê, tailor; his wife] (Break) (12) [Remanni-Adad has contracted and] bought them for [3 minas of silver (by the mina) of Carch]emish. (13) [The money is paid completely. Those] people [are purchas]ed and acquir[ed. Any revocation, lawsuit], or litigation [is void. (16) Whoever in the fut]ure, at any ti[me, lodges a complaint] and breaks the contract, whether Bel-aplu-iddina or his sons, grandsons, [brothers or nep]hews, [o]r [..., o]r [any relative of his], (r 1)…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB m[dEN]—⸢A—AŠ⸣ / LÚv.GAL—⸢za⸣-[ma]-ri šá URU.tar-bu-si-⸢ba⸣ / EN LÚv.UN-⸢MEŠ⸣ ta-da-a-ni / m*[gab?-e LÚv.ka-ṣir MÍ-šú] / ⸢ina ŠÀ⸣ [03 MA.NA KUG.UD šá URU.gar]-⸢ga⸣-mis / il-⸢qi⸣ [kas-pu gam-mur ta-ad-din*] / LÚv.⸢UN⸣-[MEŠ šu-a-tú za-ár]-⸢pu⸣ / la-qi-[ú tu-a-ru de-e-nu] / DUG₄.DUG₄ [la-áš-šú man-nu šá ina ur]-⸢kiš*⸣ / ⸢ina⸣ ma-⸢te⸣-[ma i-za-qu-pa-a-ni] / i-GIL-u-ni lu-u m⸢EN⸣—A—AŠ /…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335652.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335652). 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/P335652/.
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