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SAA 06 054. Šumma-ilani Buys 5 Slaves (ADD 0725)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) [A]rbail[ayu ...], son of the woman Dahi[...], Issar-napšir[...], a total of 5 persons, servants [of NN] — (5) Šumm[a-ilani], chariot driver, has contracted and [bought them for x minas of silver] by the (mina) of C[archemish] (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/P335597/
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Transliteration
[m]⸢URU*.arba*-ìl*.KI*⸣-[a.a x x x] / DUMU MÍ.da-ḫi-⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] / MÍ.d15—nap-šir-[x x x x x] / PAB 05 ZI-MEŠ ARAD-[MEŠ ša mx x x] / ú-piš-ma mBE-⸢ma⸣—[DINGIR-MEŠ-ni] / LÚ.mu-kil—KUŠ.PA-⸢MEŠ⸣ [ina ŠÀ-bi] / [x MA.NA KUG.UD] ina* ša ⸢URU*⸣.[gar-ga-mis] / [x x x] ia ⸢ṣa*⸣ [x x x x x] / [x x x] ṣa (blank) [x x x x x x]
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335597.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335597). 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/P335597/.
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