Position in chronology
SAA 06 344. Duplicate of the Previous Document (ADD 0271)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(Beginning destroyed) (2) [Mar]ṣiš-adallal, Ba[...], (3) [a total of 2] youths; Mannu-[...], their mother; (4) in all 5 persons, [servants] of the[se] gentlemen — (6) Remanni-Adad, chief ch[ariot driver] of Assurbanipal, king of Ass[yria], has contracted and bought them for 5 minas of silver by the (mina) of [Carchemish] from Da''inanni-Nergal, Zi[lî], Kur-ila'i, and Aššur-šallim-[ahhe]. (11) The money is paid completely. [Th]ose [people are pu]rchased and acquired. [Any revocation, la]wsuit, or litigation is voi[d]. (14) [In] the future, at any [time], whoever [comes forward, lodges] a…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[x x]+⸢x x x x⸣+[x x x x x x] / [m]⸢GIG⸣—a-da-la-li m⸢ba*⸣-[x x x] / [PAB 02] ⸢LÚ⸣.ṣu-ḫur-te MÍ.man-nu—[x x] / ⸢AMA⸣-šú-nu PAB 05 ZI-MEŠ LÚv.[ARAD-MEŠ] / ša LÚ-MEŠ-e an-[nu-te] / ú-piš-ma mrém-a-ni—dIM LÚv.⸢DIB⸣—[KUŠ.PA-MEŠ] / dan-nu ša maš-šur—DÙ—A MAN KUR—[aš-šur.KI] / ⸢ina ŠÀ⸣-bi 05 MA.NA KUG.⸢UD⸣ ina* ša ⸢URU⸣.[gar-ga-mis] / TAv IGI mKALAG-a-ni—U.GUR TAv IGI 1-zi*-[li-i] / TAv IGI mkur-la-a.a…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335218.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335218). 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/P335218/.
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