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SAA 06 009. Mušallim-Issar Buys Slaves (ADD 0486)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) [Those people are purchased and] acquired. [Any] revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is void. (3) [Whoever] in the future, at any time, [lodges] a complaint, whether Ṣabu-damqu [o]r his sons, (and) seeks [a law]suit or litigation against Mušallim-Issar, [shall ret]urn [the mon]ey tenfold to [its owner. He shall contest] in his lawsuit [and not] suc[ceed]. (Rest destroyed)
Source: Kwasman, T. & Parpola, S. 1991. Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part I: Tiglath-Pileser III through Esarhaddon. SAA 6. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa06/P335425/
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Transliteration
[UN-MEŠ šu-a-tú zar-pu] laq-⸢qi-ú⸣ / [tu]-⸢a⸣-ru de-nu DUG₄.DUG₄ la-áš-šú / [man-nu] ša ina ur-kiš ina ma-te-ma / [i]-⸢za⸣-qu-pa-a-ni lu-u mERIM*-MEŠ—SIG / [lu]-u DUMU-MEŠ-šú TAv mmu-DI—15 / [de-e]-nu DUG₄.DUG₄ ub-ta-ú-⸢ni*⸣ / [kas]-pu a-na 10-MEŠ-te a-na [EN-šú] / [GUR]-⸢ra*⸣ a-na de-ni-šú* [DUG₄.DUG₄-ma] / [la] ⸢i-laq⸣-[qi]
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335425.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335425). source
Translation excerpted from Kwasman, T. & Parpola, S. 1991. Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part I: Tiglath-Pileser III through Esarhaddon. SAA 6. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa06/P335425/.
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