Position in chronology
SAA 14 067. Nergal-[...], Chariot Driver, Buys a Slave (668-XII-10) (ADD 0184)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Seal of [NN]. (blank seal space) (2) Hulî, servant [of NN] — (3) Ner[gal-...], chariot dri[ver], has contracted [and bought him for] 1/2 mina of silver by (the mina) of [the king]. (6) The money is pa[id] completely. That [man] is purchased and acq[uired]. Any revocation, laws[uit], or litigation is void. (10) Whoever, in the future, at any time, lodges a complaint or breaks the contract, shall pay [x minas of silv]er to redeem the man. (13) [Witness NN], chariot driver. (14) [Witness NN], ditto. (15) [Witness NN], ditto. (r 1) [Witness NN. Witness ...-ib]ni. (r 2) [Witness NN. Witn]ess Ahatâ. (r 3) [Witness NN], scribe. (blank space of 4 lines) (r 4) Month Adar (XII), 10th day, eponym year of Mar-la[rim].
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/P335134/
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Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB ⸢m⸣[x x x x x] / mḫu-li-i ARAD-⸢šú⸣ [ša mx x x] / ú-piš-ma mdU*.⸢GUR*⸣—[x x x] / LÚ.mu-kil—KUŠ.[PA-MEŠ ina ŠÀ] / 1/2 MA.NA KUG.UD ina šá [MAN il-qi] / kas-pu gam-mur ta-⸢ad⸣-[din LÚ] / šu-a-tú za-rip ⸢laq⸣-[qi] / tu-a-ru de-e-[nu] / DUG₄.DUG₄ la-áš-šú / man-nu šá ina ur-kiš ina ma-te-ma / ⸢i-zaq⸣-qup-an-ni GIL*-u-ni / [x MA.NA KUG].⸢UD* SUM⸣-an LÚ ú-še-ṣa / [IGI mx x x x x…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335134.
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/P335134/..
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/P335134/.
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