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SAA 14 264. Purchase of Slaves (ADD 0450)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) [NN has contracted and] bought them for 5 minas of silver [by (the mina) of Car]chemish. (3) [The money is p]aid [completely]. (Those) people are purchased and [acquired]. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation [is void]. (5) [Wh]oever in the future, breaks the contract, whether [...]ri or his sons or his grandsons [or his brothers or his ne]phews (Break) (r 1) [Witness NN], head porter. (r 2) [Witness NN], exorcist. (r 3) [Witness NN], chief exorcist of house the crown prince. (r 4) [Witness NN], porter of Nabû. (r 5) [Witness NN], porter of the palace. (r 6) [Witness NN], court clerk. (r 7) [Month ..., ...th day] eponym year of [NN]. (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/P335391/
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Transliteration
[x x x x x x ina] ŠÀ 05 MA.NA KUG.UD / [ina šá URU.gar]-ga-mis il-qí / [kas-pu gam-mur] ⸢ta⸣-din UN-MEŠ zar-pu / [laq-qi-u] tú-a-ru de-e-nu DUG₄.DUG₄ / [la-áš-šú] ⸢man⸣-nu šá ina ur-kiš GIL-u-ni lu-u / [mx x x]-ri lu-u DUMU-MEŠ-šú lu-u DUMU—DUMU-MEŠ-šú / [lu-u PAB-MEŠ-šú lu-u] ⸢DUMU⸣—PAB-MEŠ-šu / [IGI mx x x x] LÚ.GAL—Ì.DU₈ / [IGI mx x x x x] LÚ.MAŠ.MAŠ / [IGI mx x x x x] LÚ.GAL—MAŠ.MAŠ šá É…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335391.
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/P335391/..
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/P335391/.
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