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SAA 06 346. Remanni-Adari Purchases a Slave (ADD 0203)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) [Remanni-Adad], ch[ief chari]ot driver [of] Assurbanipal, king of Assy[ria, has contracted and] bought him for one mina of silver by the mina [of] Carchemish. (5) The money is paid completely. That man is purchased and acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is void. (8) Whoever in the future, at any time, lodges a complaint, whether Nabû-naṣir or his sons or grandsons, and seeks a lawsuit or litigation against Remanni-Adad and his sons and grandsons, (r 5) shall place 10 minas of silver and one mina of gold in the lap of Ištar of Nineveh, [and shall return] the mon[ey] tenfold to its owners. [He shall contest in his lawsuit and not suc]ceed. (Rest destroyed)
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/P335150/
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Transliteration
[LÚ].⸢mu⸣-kil—⸢KUŠ⸣.PA-MEŠ ⸢dan⸣-[nu] / [ša] maš-šur—DÙ—A MAN KUR—aš-⸢šur⸣.[KI] / ⸢ina⸣ ŠÀ-bi 01 MA.NA KUG.UD ina 01 MA.⸢NA⸣-[e ša] / ⸢URU⸣.gar-ga-mis il-⸢qi⸣ / ⸢kas⸣-pu gam-mur ta-ad-din / LÚ šú-a-tu za-rip laq-qi / ⸢tu-a⸣-ru de-e-nu ⸢DUG₄⸣.DUG₄ / ⸢la⸣-áš-šú man-nu ša ina ur-kiš ina ma-te-⸢ma⸣ / i-za-qu-pa-an-ni / lu-u mdPA—PAB lu-u DUMU-MEŠ-šú / lu-u DUMU—DUMU-MEŠ-šú ša de-e-nu / DUG₄.DUG₄ TAv…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335150.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335150). 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/P335150/.
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