Position in chronology
SAA 14 326. A Scribe Buys Slaves (ADD 0718)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) Adunu-[...], (2) Nabutu, [...], (3) Am-baba, [...], (4) Abda', [...], (5) Laia', [...], (6) one ditto wean[ed] son [...], (7) in all 4 sons, in all [x persons], servants of [NN] — (9) [NN], scribe, has contracted (and bought) (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/P335591/
Why it matters
Transliteration
ma-du-nu—[x x x] / mna-bu-tú—[x x x x] / mam—ba-ba [x x x] / mab-da-aʾ [x x x] / mla-ia-aʾ [x x x] / 01-en : DUMU pir-⸢su⸣ [x x x x] / PAB 04 DUMU-MEŠ PAB [x ZI-MEŠ] / ARAD-MEŠ ša m[x x x x x] / ú-piš-ma [mx x x x x] / [LÚ].A.BA ⸢x⸣+[x 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 P335591.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335591). 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/P335591/.
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