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SAA 06 038. Šumma-ilani Buys People from Il-amar (694?) (ADD 0508)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) [servan]ts of Il-amara, [ch]ief of granaries — (3) Šumma-ilani [has contracted and boug]ht [them for] 1/2 mina of sil[ver by] the mina of the king. (5) The money is paid [co]mpletely. Those [people] are p[urch]ased and acquired. [Any] revocation, la[ws]uit, or litigat[ion] is void. (r 1) [Whoever] in the future, at any time, [lodges] a complaint, whether Il-amara or his sons, grandsons, brothers or [neph]ews, or his labour-duty superior, (r 5) [and] seeks [a lawsui]t or litigation against Šumma-ilani, his [sons], grandsons, [brothers] and nephews, [shall pay x minas of refined silver and x mi]nas of pure gold. (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/P335446/
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Transliteration
[ARAD]-⸢MEŠ*⸣-ni* ⸢ša?⸣ [m]DINGIR—a-mar-ra / [LÚv].⸢GAL⸣—kar-⸢ma⸣-ni / [ú-piš]-⸢ma⸣ mšum-ma—⸢DINGIR⸣-MEŠ-ni / [ina ŠÀ] 1/2* MA.NA KUG.[UD ina] ma-né-⸢e⸣ ša MAN / [il]-⸢qi*⸣ kas-pu ⸢ga⸣-mur SUM-ni / [UN-MEŠ] šú-a-tú ⸢zar-pu⸣ la-qi-u / [tu]-⸢a⸣-ru ⸢de-e⸣-nu DUG₄.⸢DUG₄⸣ la-áš-šú / [man-nu] ⸢ša⸣ ina ur-⸢kiš⸣ ina ma-te-ma / [i]-⸢za*⸣-qu-pa-ni lu-u mDINGIR—a-⸢mar*⸣-ra / [lu-u] ⸢DUMU⸣-MEŠ-šú lu-u…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335446.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Sippar-Yahrurum (mod. Tell Abu Habbah) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335446). 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/P335446/.
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