Position in chronology
SAA 06 128. Purchase of Slaves (696-V-5) (ADD 0614)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) [Seal of NN, owner of the ...... be]ing sold. (seal space) (3) [...]ni, his wife, [NN his son], his daughter, (5) the woman [......] (Break) (r 1) Witness [......]. (r 2) Witness Nabû'a, scribe. (r 3) Month Ab (V), 5th day, eponym year of Šulmu-beli, [governor] of Talmusa.
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/P335531/
Why it matters
Transliteration
[NA₄.KIŠIB mx x x x x x] / [EN x x x x x x x ta-da]-ni / [x x x x x x x x]-ni* MÍ-šú / m[x x x x x x x x] DUMU.MÍ-su / MÍ.[x x x x x x x x x x] ⸢x⸣ / m[x x x x x x x x x x]-a / ⸢IGI*⸣ [mx x x x x x x] / IGI mdPA-⸢ú⸣-u-a LÚv.A.⸢BA⸣ / ITI.NE UD 05-KÁM / lim-⸢mu⸣ mDI-⸢mu⸣—EN / [GAR.KUR] URU.tal-mu-si
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335531.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335531). 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/P335531/.
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