Position in chronology
SAA 06 122. Purchase of a Slave (698-VII-18) (ADD 0191)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Fingernail of Aššur-na'di, son of Marda[nu], owner of the man being sold. (Break) (r 1) [...] boatmen. (r 2) [Witness Ra]him-il, from the town Hatpina[...]. (r 3) [Witness Na]bû-šumu-lešir, scribe. (r 4) Month Tishri (VII), 18th day, eponym year of Šulmu-šarri.
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/P335140/
Why it matters
Transliteration
ṣu-pur maš-šur—I A mmar-da-[ni?] / EN LÚ SUM-ni / [x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ / [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ MÁ.DU.DU-MEŠ / [IGI mra]-ḫi-me—DINGIR šá URU.ḫa-at-pi-⸢na*-x⸣ / [IGI md]⸢PA⸣—MU—GIŠ LÚ.A.BA / ⸢ITI⸣.DUL UD 18-KÁM / ⸢lim⸣-me mDI-⸢mu⸣—LUGAL
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335140.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Sippar-Yahrurum (mod. Tell Abu Habbah) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335140). 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/P335140/.
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