Position in chronology
SAA 06 110. Se’-madi, Village Manager, Buys 7 Slaves (681-XII-16) (ADD 0231)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Seal of Urda-Issar, owner of the people being sold. (two stamp seal impressions) (3) Hamnunu, his wife and mother, Addâ and Il-suri, his brothers, and his two sisters, a total of 7 persons, servants of Urda-Issar — (7) Se'-madi, village manager of the crown prince, has contracted and bought them for two minas of silver by the (mina) of Carchemish. (10) The money is paid completely. Those people are purchased and acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is void. (13) Whoever in the future, at any time, lodges a complaint and se[eks] a lawsuit or litigation shall place 10 minas of…
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/P335178/
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Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB mARAD—d15 / EN UN-MEŠ ta-da-ni / mḫa-am-nu-nu MÍ-šú MÍ.AMA-šú / mad-da-a mDINGIR—su*-ri o* ŠEŠ-MEŠ-šú / 02 NIN-MEŠ-šú PAB 07 ZI-MEŠ / ARAD-MEŠ ša mARAD—d15 / ú-piš-ma mse-eʾ—ma-⸢aʾ⸣-du / LÚv.GAL—URU-MEŠ ša DUMU—MAN / ina ŠÀ 02 MA.NA KUG.UD ina ša o* gar-ga-mis / il-qi kás-pu ga-mur ta-din / UN-MEŠ šu-a-tú zar₄-pu la-qi-u / tu-a-ru de-nu DUG₄.DUG₄ / la-áš-šú man-nu šá ina ur-kiš / ina…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335178.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335178). 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/P335178/.
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