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SAA 06 343. Remanni-Adad Buys 5 Slaves for 5 Minas of Silver (ADD 0270)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) [Seal of Da''ina]nni-Nergal, seal of Zil[î, seal of Kur-il]a'i, seal of Aššur-šallim-ahhe, [sons of] Gabbu-ilani-ereš, (4) [a total of 4 me]n, owners of the people being sold. (blank seal space) (5) [...] and his wife, a total of 2; [Marṣiš]-adallal, Da[..., a total of] 2 youths; [Mannu-...], their mother; in all 5 persons, [servants of] these [gentlem]en — (9) [Rem]anni-Adad, chariot driver [of Assurban]ipal, king of Assyria, [has contracted and bought them] for 5 minas of silver by (the mina) of] Carchemish [from Da''inanni-Nergal, Zilî] (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[NA₄.KIŠIB mKALAG-a]-⸢ni⸣—U.GUR NA₄.KIŠIB mzi*-⸢li⸣-[i] / [NA₄.KIŠIB mkur-la]-a.a NA₄.KIŠIB maš-šur—šal-lim—PAB-MEŠ / [DUMU-MEŠ] mgab-bu—DINGIR-MEŠ—APIN-eš / [PAB 04 LÚ]-ME EN UN-MEŠ SUM-ni / [x x x] ⸢MÍ⸣-šu PAB 02 m[GIG]—⸢a-da-la-li⸣ / [mDINGIR-x x x PAB] 02 ⸢LÚ⸣.ṣu-ḫur-te / [MÍ.man-nu—x-x-x] ⸢AMA⸣-šu-nu PAB 05 ZI-MEŠ / [ARAD-MEŠ ša] ⸢LÚ⸣-MEŠ-e an-nu-te / [ú-piš-ma mrém]-⸢a⸣-ni—dIM…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335217.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Theodore Kwasman and Simo Parpola , Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part I: Tiglath-Pileser III through Esarhaddon (State Archives of Assyria, 6), 1991. Lemmatised by Melanie Groß, 2010–2011, as part of the FWF-funded research project "Royal Institutional Households in First Millennium BC Mesopotamia" (S 10802-G18) directed by Heather D. Baker at the University of Vienna. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P335217/..
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/P335217/.
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