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SAA 06 342. Remanni-Adad Buys 10 Slaves (ADD 0247)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (blank seal space) (1) Sin-alik-pani, [..., his son], wife and weaned daughter; [NN, his son], wife and daughter; Uṣa[...], hatter, and his wife, a total of 10 [persons] — (5) Remanni-Adad, [chariot driver], has contracted and bought (said people) from these gentlemen [for] x minas of silver (by the mina) of Carchemish. (7) [The money is pa]id completely. Those people are purch[ased and acquired. Any revocation, law]suit, or litigation is voi[d]. (10) (Guaranteed against) [seizures of epile]psy for 100 days (and against) frau[d fore]ver. (11) Whoever in the future, [at…
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/P335194/
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Transliteration
msi-in—DU—IGI [LÚ.x x x DUMU-šú] / MÍ-šú DUMU.MÍ-su pir-su [mx x x DUMU-šú] / MÍ-šú DUMU.MÍ-su mú-ṣa-[x x x x x] / LÚ.šá—U.SAG-MEŠ-šú MÍ-šú PAB 10 [ZI-MEŠ] / ú-piš-ma mrém-an-ni—dIM ⸢LÚ⸣.[mu-kil—KUŠ.PA-MEŠ] / TAv IGI LÚ-MEŠ-e an-nu-⸢te⸣ [ina ŠÀ-bi] / ⸢x MA.NA KUG.UD ša URU⸣.gar-ga-mis TI-⸢qí*⸣ [kas-pu] / [gam-mur ta]-⸢din⸣ UN-MEŠ šú-a-tú za-⸢ar⸣-[pu la-qí-u] / [tu-a-ru] ⸢de⸣-e-nu DUG₄.DUG₄…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335194.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335194). 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/P335194/.
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