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SAA 14 005. Milki-nuri Buys Six Slaves (ADD 0316)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (stamp seal impressions) (1) [NN (and)] Šamaš-ila'i, his son of 4 spa[ns], (2) [NN (and)] Usiya, (his) son of 3 spans, (3) [...]-Issar, a weaned child, (and) Ba'assi, [his] daughter, (4) [a total of 6] persons, servants [of] Marduk-remanni — (6) [Mi]lki-nuri, eunuch of the queen, has contracted and [bought them fr]om Marduk-remann[i for] 2 minas and 10 shekels of [silver]. (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/P335261/
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Transliteration
[mx x x x] mdUTU—DINGIR-a.a DUMU-šú 04 ⸢ru*-ṭu*⸣ / [mx x x m]ú-si-a DUMU 03 ru-u-ṭu / [mx]—⸢d*⸣15 pir-su MÍ.ba-a-as-si DUMU.⸢MÍ⸣-[su] / [PAB 06] ZI-MEŠ ARAD-MEŠ-ni / [ša] mdŠÚ—re-man-ni ú-piš-ma / [m]⸢mil⸣-ki—ZÁLAG LÚv.SAG ša MÍ—É.GAL / ⸢TAv⸣ IGI mdŠÚ—<<man*>>—re-man-⸢ni⸣ / [ina ŠÀ] 02 MA.NA 10 ⸢GÍN-MEŠ⸣ [KUG.UD il-qi]
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335261.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) ? — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335261). 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/P335261/.
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