Position in chronology
SAA 14 091. Gir-Ha, Commander-of-Fifty, Buys a Tabalean Slave (*648-X-22) (ADD 0197)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [S]eal of Adad-rapa, merchant, owner of the purchased man being sold. (stamp seal impressions) (3) Kamabani, his Tabalean servant — (4) Gir-Hâ, commander-of-fifty, has contracted and [boug]ht him for one mina and 7 shekels of silver. (6) The money is paid completely. [That man is purchased] and acquired. (Break) (r 2) Witness Habani, Aba-il. (r 3) Witness Pisaniši, commander-of-fifty. (r 4) Witness Remanni-ilu, merchant. (r 5) Month Tebet (X), 22nd day, eponym year of Belšunu.
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/P335144/
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Transliteration
[NA₄].KIŠIB m10—ra-⸢pa*⸣-a LÚv.DAM.QAR / EN LÚ.ši-me* ta-da-ni / mka-ma-ba-ni ARAD-šú LÚ.tab-la-a.a / ú-piš-ma mgír—ḫa-a GAL—50 / ina ŠÀ 01 MA.NA 07 GÍN-MEŠ KUG.UD / [il]-⸢qi⸣ kas-pu ga-mur ta-din / [LÚ šu-a-tú za-rip] TI-qí / [x x x]+⸢x⸣ x x x x [x x] / IGI mḫa-ba-ni ma-ba-a—⸢DINGIR⸣ / IGI mpi-si-ni-ši GAL—50 / IGI mrém-a-ni—DINGIR LÚv.DAM.QAR / ITI.AB UD 22-KÁM / lim-mu mEN-šú-nu
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335144.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) ? — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335144). 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/P335144/.
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