Position in chronology
SAA 06 111. Se’-madi, Village Manager, Buys 7 More Slaves (680-VII) (ADD 0229)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Seal of Urda-Issar, owner of the people being sold. (stamp seal impressions) (3) Hosea and his two wives, Me'sa and Badia; Se'-gabbâ and Bel-Harran-taklak; two weaned daughters; a total of 7 persons, servants of Urda-Issar — (9) Se'-madi has contracted and bought them for 3 minas of silver. (11) The money is paid completely. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is void. (r 4) Witness Bel-nuri, merchant. (r 5) Witness Am-yate'u. (r 6) Witness Sangî. (r 7) Witness Kuisâ. (r 8) Witness Se'-duri. (r 9) Witness (blank) (r 10) Month Tishri (VII), eponym year of Dananu. (Aramaic caption: Deed of Hosea and 6 others, 7 people of Urda-Is[sar].)
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/P335176/
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Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB mARAD—d15 / EN UN-MEŠ SUM-ni / mú-si-aʾ 02 MÍ-MEŠ-šú / MÍ.me-eʾ-sa-a MÍ.ba-di-a / mse—gab-a mEN—KASKAL—tàk-lak / 02 DUMU.MÍ-MEŠ pir-su / PAB 07 ZI-MEŠ LÚv.ARAD-MEŠ / ša mARAD—d15 / ú-piš-ma mse—ma-a-di / ina ŠÀ-bi 03 MA.NA KUG.UD / il-qi kas-pu / ga-mur ta-ad-din / tu-a-ru de-e-nu / DUG₄.DUG₄ la-a-šú / IGI mEN—ZÁLAG LÚv.tam-QAR / IGI mam—ia-te-eʾ-ú / IGI msa-an-gi-i / IGI mku*-i-sa-a / IGI mse—BÀD / IGI m(blank) / ITI.DUL lim-mu mda-na-nu
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335176.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335176). 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/P335176/.
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