Position in chronology
SAA 06 145. Purchase of Slaves (692-XI-1) (ADD 0286)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Instead of [their] sea[ls they impressed their fingernails]. (2) Fingernails of Sura[yu], Gargameša[yu], and Nabû-nammir, a total of three gentlemen, owners of the people being so[ld]. (fingernail impressions) (Break) (r 1) [Witness] Immani-il. (r 2) [Witness ...]-riba, scribe. (r 3) Month Shebat (XI), 1st day, eponym year of Zazaku.
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/P335231/
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Transliteration
ku-um NA₄.KIŠIB-[šú-nu ṣu-pur-šú-nu iš-ku-nu] / ṣu-pur msu-⸢ra⸣-[a.a] / mKUR.gar-ga-meš*-a.a / mdPA—ZÁLAG-ir PAB 03 LÚ-[MEŠ] / be-lí LÚ.UN-MEŠ ta-[da-ni] / [IGI mx x x x x IGI m]⸢im?-ma*-ni⸣—DINGIR / [IGI mx x x x]+⸢x⸣—SU LÚ.A.BA / ITI.ZÍZ UD 01-KÁM lim-me / mza-za-ku
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335231.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335231). 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/P335231/.
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