Position in chronology
SAA 06 118. Tarhundapi Buys a Slave (698-XII-30) (ADD 0198)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Seal of Asî, owner of the man being sold. (two stamp seals) (3) Atar-hamu, servant of Asî — (5) Tarhundapî has contracted and boug[ht him] for 32 shekels of silver. (7) The money is paid completely. That man is purchased and acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is void. (11) Whoev[er] in the future, at any time, breaks the contract, [whether] Asî [or] his [so]ns or [grand]sons, [and s]eeks [a lawsuit] or litigation [against Tarhundapî] (Break) (r 1) shall pla[ce ...... in] the lap of [Ištar residing in] Nineveh, and shall return the money [tenfo]ld to its owners. (r 5) Witness…
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/P335145/
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Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB ma-si-i / EN LÚ SUM-ni / ma-tar—ḫa-mu ARAD-šú / ša* ma-si-i / ú-piš-ma mtar-ḫu-un-da-pi-⸢i⸣ / ina ŠÀ 32 GÍN KUG.UD il-[qí*] / kas-pu gam-mur ta-ad-⸢din⸣ / LÚ šú-a-tú za-rip laq-qí / tu-a-ru de-e-nu / DUG₄.DUG₄ la-áš-šú / man-⸢nu⸣ [ša] ina ⸢ur⸣-kiš / ⸢ina ma⸣-te-e*-ma GIL-u-ni / [lu-u] ma-si-i / [lu-u] ⸢DUMU⸣-MEŠ-šú lu*-[u*] / [DUMU*]—DUMU*-MEŠ-⸢šú*⸣ / [ša de-e-nu] ⸢DUG₄.DUG₄⸣ o* / [TAv…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335145.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335145). 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/P335145/.
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