Position in chronology
SAA 06 347. Remanni-Adad Buys a Slave (ADD 0174)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) [S]eal of Marduk-šarru-uṣur, (2) seal of Šarru-lu-dari, (3) owners of the man being sold. (stamp seal impressions) (4) Nabû-iyyali, servant of Marduk-šarru-uṣur and Šarr[u-lu-dari] — (6) Remanni-[Adad], chariot driver, has contracted and [bou]ght him [fo]r one mina of silver by the mina of Carch[emish]. (10) The money [is paid] completely. [Th]at [man] is purchased and ac[quired]. [Any revocati]on, lawsu[it], or litigation is voi[d]. (r 2) [Who]ever in the future, a[t any time], lodges a complaint, whoever breaks the contract, shall pay 5 minas of sil[ve]r. (r 6) [Wi]tn[ess]…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
⸢NA₄⸣.KIŠIB m⸢d⸣ŠÚ—MAN—PAB* / NA₄.KIŠIB mMAN—lu—dà-ri / EN LÚ ta-da-ni / [m]dPA—ia-a-li ARAD-šú-⸢nu*⸣ / ⸢ša⸣ mdŠÚ—MAN—PAB ⸢ša⸣ mMAN—[lu—dà-ri] / ú-piš-ma mrém-⸢a⸣-ni—⸢d⸣[IM] / LÚ.mu-kil—⸢KUŠ.PA⸣-MEŠ [o] / ina ŠÀ-bi 01 MA.NA KUG.UD [o] / ⸢ina⸣ 01 MA.NA-⸢e⸣ ša URU.gar-⸢ga⸣-[mis] / ⸢il⸣-qí kas-pu ⸢ga⸣-mur [ta-din] / [LÚ šu]-a-te za-rip [la-qí] / [tu-a]-⸢ru⸣ de-⸢e⸣-[nu] / ⸢DUG₄⸣.DUG₄ la-áš-[šú] /…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335124.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335124). 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/P335124/.
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