Position in chronology
SAA 14 064. Mannu-ki-Allaya, Conscript of the Chief Eunuch, Buys Slaves (669) (ADD 0310)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(1) Seal of Adad-a[hu-iddina], [owner] of the people being sold. (stamp seal impressions) (3) [Ne]rgal-d[a]n, Issar-[..., his wife], Martî, ditto, her daughter, 3 spans [is her height], a total of 3 person[s, servants o]f [Adad-ahu-iddina] — (7) [Mannu-ki]-All[aya], consript of the chief e[un]uch, has contracted and bought them for 2 m[in]as of silver by the min[a] of Carchemish. (11) " I have bought the people after the remission of debts." (12) The money is paid completely. Th[ose] people are purchased and acquired. Any revocati[on, laws]uit, or litigation is vo[id]. (15) [Whoever] in the…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
⸢NA₄*⸣.KIŠIB mdIM—⸢PAB*⸣—[AŠ] / [EN] ⸢UN-MEŠ⸣ SUM-⸢ni*⸣ / [m]⸢d⸣[U].GUR—⸢KALAG⸣-an MÍ*.⸢15*—x⸣+[x MÍ-šú] / ⸢MÍ⸣.mar-ti-i :. ma-ár-a-⸢sa*⸣ / 03 ru-u-⸢ṭu⸣ [la-an-šá] / PAB 03 ZI-[MEŠ ARAD-MEŠ] ⸢ša⸣ [mdIM—PAB—AŠ] / ú-piš-ma [m*man-nu—ki-i*]—d⸢al-la*⸣-[a.a] / rak-⸢su⸣ ša LÚ.⸢GAL—SAG-MEŠ⸣ / ina ŠÀ-bi 02* ⸢MA.NA⸣ KUG.UD ina ma-⸢né*⸣-e / ša URU.ga-⸢ár*⸣-sa-mì-si* TI / ur-ki ⸢da*-ra*⸣-ri UN-MEŠ a-si-qi /…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335255.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Raija Mattila, Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part II: Assurbanipal Through Sin-šarru-iškun (State Archives of Assyria, 14), 2002. Lemmatised by Melanie Groß, 2010–2011, as part of the FWF-funded research project "Royal Institutional Households in First Millennium BC Mesopotamia" (S 10802-G18) directed by Heather D. Baker at the University of Vienna. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P335255/..
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/P335255/.
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