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SAA 06 313. Duplicate of the Previous Text (666-IV-20) (ADD 0258)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [Seal of Bel]-aplu-iddina, chief [singe]r of Til-Barsip, [owner of the pe]ople being sold. (space for stamp seal impressions) (4) [Gabb]ê, tailor, his wife, [mother], and two sons, a total of 5 persons, [servan]ts of Bel-aplu-iddina — (7) Remanni-Adad, [chariot] driver of the king, [has contr]acted and bought them from [Bel]-aplu-iddina for 3 minas of [silver] (by the mina) of Carchemish. (11) [The money] is paid [complete]ly. Those [people] are purch[ased and acquired. Any rev]ocation, lawsu[it, or litigation is void]. (13) [Who]ever [in the future] (Break) (r 1) [deputy of] the…
Source: 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/P335205/
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Transliteration
[NA₄.KIŠIB mdEN]—A—AŠ LÚ.GAL / [LÚ.za-ma]-⸢ri* šá⸣ URU.tar-bu-si-e / [EN] ⸢UN⸣-MEŠ ta-da-a-ni / [mgab?]-e LÚ.ka-ṣir MÍ-šú / [AMA]-⸢šu*⸣ 02 DUMU-MEŠ-šu PAB 05 ZI-MEŠ / [ARAD]-⸢MEŠ⸣ šá mdEN—A—SUM-na / [ú]-⸢piš⸣-ma mrém-a-ni—dIM / [LÚ.mu-kil]—KUŠ.PA-MEŠ šá MAN TAv IGI / [mdEN]—A—AŠ i-na ŠÀ 03 MA.NA / [KUG.UD šá URU].⸢gar⸣-ga-⸢mis⸣ TI-qí / [kas-pu gam]-⸢mur ta-ad-din⸣ / [UN-MEŠ] ⸢šu⸣-a-⸢tú⸣…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335205.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335205). 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/P335205/.
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