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SAA 06 109. Se’ -madi, Village Manager of the Crown Prince, Buys Three Slaves (683) (ADD 0278)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [Seal of U]rda-Issar, [owner of the people] being sold. (cylinder seal impression) (3) Mar-yate', Se'-imme and Murâ, a total of 3 persons, servants [of] Urda-Issar — (6) [Se'-m]adi, village manager [of the crown prince], has contracted and bought them [from Urda-Is]sar for 50 shekels of silver. (9) [The money] is pai[d completely]. (Break) (r 3) [Witness NN].... (r 4) [Witness NN], scribe. (r 5) [Witness NN], farmer. (r 6) [...... from] Kaprabu. (r 7) [Witness Ahi-ya]baba, farmer. (r 8) [Month...], 7th day, eponym year of [Mannu-ki-Adad, governor of] Ṣupat. (r 10) [Witness ...]-ahu-iddina, scribe.
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/P335225/
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Transliteration
[NA₄.KIŠIB m]⸢ARAD⸣—d15 / [EN UN-MEŠ] SUM-ni / mmar—ia-te-eʾ mse-eʾ—im-⸢me⸣ / [m]mu-ra-a PAB 03 ZI-MEŠ ARAD-MEŠ / [ša m]⸢ARAD⸣—d*15 ú-piš-⸢ma⸣ / [mse-eʾ*—ma]-⸢ʾa*⸣-di LÚv.GAL—⸢URU⸣-MEŠ / [ša DUMU—MAN ina] ⸢ŠÀ⸣-bi 50 GÍN-MEŠ ⸢KUG.UD⸣ / [TAv mARAD—d]⸢15*⸣ il-qi / [kas-pu gam-mur ta]-⸢din*⸣-ni* / [x x x x x x x x x] ⸢x⸣ / [x x x x x x x x x] / [IGI mx x x x x]-⸢x⸣-MEŠ / [IGI mx x x x x] LÚv*.A.BA /…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335225.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335225). 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/P335225/.
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