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SAA 14 213. Se-yate Buys People (ADD 0282+)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [Seal of S]e'-imme, [seal of D]išî, [in all two (men), ow]ners of the people being sold. (stamp seal impression) (4) [......] (5) [...] son [...] (Break) (7) [...] son [...] (8) [...], his son, 3 [...] (9) [...]sâ, his son, (10) [... in all x persons], belonging to these men — (11) Se'-iatê has [cont]racted and b[ought fr]om Se'-imme and from D[išî, fo]r 2 minas of silver. (14) The money is paid completely. [Those] people are purchased and acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is void. (16) Whoever bre[aks the contract] and lodges a complaint, [shall give] 20 minas of [silver and x minas] of gold to Sin residing in Har[ran], [and shall return] the money tenfold to its owners. He shall [conte]st [in] his lawsuit and [not succeed]. (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/P335228/
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Transliteration
[NA₄.KIŠIB mse]-⸢e⸣—i-me / [NA₄.KIŠIB m]⸢di⸣-ši-i / [PAB 02] ⸢EN⸣ UN-MEŠ SUM-ni / [x x x x x] ⸢x x x⸣ [x x] / [x x x x] ⸢x DUMU⸣ [x x x x] / [x x x x x] ⸢x x⸣ [x x x x x] / [x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ DUMU [x x x x x] / [mx x x x] DUMU-šú 03 ⸢x⸣+[x x x] / [mx x x x]-sa*-a DUMU-šú [o] / [x x x PAB x ZI-MEŠ] šá LÚ-MEŠ-e an-nu-te / [ú]-⸢piš⸣-ma mse-e—ia-te-⸢e⸣ / [TAv] ⸢IGI⸣ mse-e—i-me TAv IGI m⸢di⸣-[ši-i] /…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335228.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335228). 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/P335228/.
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