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SAA 06 096. Lady Barsipitu Buys 4 Slaves (ADD 0244)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [Instead of] his seal he impressed his fingernail. (2) [Fing]ernail of Babilayu, owner of the people being sold. (fingernail impressions) (3) Taribi-Issar, his brother, wife, and daughter, a total of 4 per[sons], servants of Babilayu — (5) Barsipitu has contracted and bought them from Babilayu for 3 minas of silver by the mina of the merchant. (8) The money is paid completely. Those people are purchased and acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is void. (10) Whoever in the future, at any time, breaks the contract, whether Babilayu, or his sons, grandsons, brothers, or nephews,…
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/P335191/
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Transliteration
[ku-um] ⸢NA₄⸣.KIŠIB-šú ṣu-pur-šú iš-kun / [ṣu]-⸢pur⸣ mKÁ.DINGIR-a.a EN UN-MEŠ SUM-ni / mta-ri-bi—d15 ŠEŠ-šú MÍ-šú DUMU.MÍ-sa PAB 04 ⸢ZI⸣-[MEŠ] / LÚv.ARAD-MEŠ-ni ša mKÁ.DINGIR-a.a / tu-piš-ma MÍ.BÁR.SIPA.KI-i-tú / TAv IGI mKÁ.DINGIR-a.a ina ŠÀ-bi 03 MA.NA KUG.⸢UD⸣ / ina 01 MA.NA-e ša LÚv.DAM.QAR ta-al-qi / kas-pu ga-mur ta-din UN-MEŠ šu-a-tú / za-ar-pu la-qi-ú tu-a-ru de-e-nu / DUG₄.DUG₄ la-a-šú…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335191.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335191). 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/P335191/.
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