Position in chronology
SAA 14 003. Milki-nuri Buys Ten Slaves (ADD 0727)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) [NN, ...]..., [NN], a total of 2 sons, [NN], her daughter, (4) [... a to]tal of 10 persons — (5) [M]ilki-nuri, [eunuch of] the queen, [has contracted and bo]ught them [for x min]as of silver [by the mina of the king]. (r 2) The money [is paid completely. That] house, land, and people are [purcha]sed and acquired. [Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation] is void. (Rest destroyed)
Source: Mattila, R. 2002. Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part II: Assurbanipal through Sin-šarru-iškun. SAA 14. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa14/P335599/
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Transliteration
[mx x x x]+⸢x x-šú* LÚv?⸣.[x x] / [mx x x x x]+⸢x⸣-a PAB 02 DUMU-MEŠ / [MÍ.x x x] ⸢DUMU⸣.MÍ-su / [x x x x] ⸢PAB⸣ 10 ZI-MEŠ / [ú-piš-ma m]⸢mil⸣-ki—nu-ri / [LÚv.SAG ša] MÍ—É.GAL / [ina ŠÀ x MA].⸢NA⸣ KUG.UD-MEŠ / [ina ša MAN] ⸢il⸣-qi KUG.UD / [gam-mur ta-din] ⸢É⸣ A.ŠÀ UN-MEŠ / [šú-a-tú za-ár]-⸢pu*⸣ TI / [tú-a-ru de-nu DUG₄.DUG₄] la-áš-⸢šú⸣
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335599.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335599). source
Translation excerpted from Mattila, R. 2002. Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part II: Assurbanipal through Sin-šarru-iškun. SAA 14. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa14/P335599/.
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