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SAA 06 345. Remanni-Adad Buys Three Slaves (ADD 0322)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [Seal of Nabû-aplu-iddina, owner] of the people [being sold]. (cylinder seal impression) (3) [...]a-ṭa[b], his servant, [...]-ila'i, his wife, [...]atu, his daughter, [a total of 3 per]sons — (7) [Remanni]-Adad, [chief] chariot driver [of] king [Assur]banipal, has contracted and [bought them from Na]bû-aplu-iddina [for x] shekels of silver. (11) [Tho]se [people] are purch[ased and acquired]. (Break) (r 1) [He shall return the money ten]fold to [its owner]. He shall conte[st in his lawsuit and not suc]ceed. The judge shall not [he]ed [his case]. (r 4) [Witness Sa]'iru, 'third man.' (r 5)…
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/P335267/
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Transliteration
[NA₄.KIŠIB mdPA—A—SUM-na] / [EN] ⸢UN-MEŠ⸣ [SUM-ni] / [mx x]-a*—DÙG*.⸢GA*⸣ ARAD-šú / [MÍ.x x x]—⸢DINGIR*⸣-a.a MÍ-šú / [MÍ.x x]-a*-tú DUMU.MÍ-su / [PAB 03] ⸢ZI⸣-MEŠ ú-piš-ma / [mrém-a-ni]—d⸢IM⸣ LÚ.mu-kil—⸢KUŠ⸣.PA-MEŠ / [dan-nu šá maš-šur]—DÙ*—A LUGAL o* / [TAv IGI m]dPA—A—SUM-na / [ina ŠÀ x] GÍN-MEŠ KUG.UD / [il-qí UN-MEŠ šú-a]-⸢tu?⸣ zar*-[pu la-qí-ú] / [kas-pu a-na 10]-MEŠ* ⸢a⸣-[na EN-šú GUR] /…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335267.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335267). 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/P335267/.
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