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SAA 06 255. Idu’a, Town Manager of the Queen Mother, Sells People (678) (ADD 0301)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [Se]al of Idu'a, town manager [of] Lahiru of the domain of the queen mother, [owner] of the people being sold. (cylinder seal impression) (4) [...], farmer; (5) [...], farmer; (Break) (r 1) [Witness ...]-Adad, scribe. (r 2) [Witness Urda]-Nanaya, scribe. (r 3) [Month ...], 7th day, [eponym year of Ne]rgal-šarru-uṣur, chief cupbearer.
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/P335246/
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Transliteration
[NA₄].⸢KIŠIB⸣ m⸢i*⸣-du*-u-a LÚv.GAL—⸢URU⸣-<MEŠ> / [ša] ⸢URU⸣.la-ḫi-ra ša É AMA—MAN / [EN] UN-MEŠ ta-da-ni / [mx x x x]-⸢a*⸣ LÚv.ENGAR / [mx x x x x] ⸢LÚv*⸣.ENGAR* / [IGI mx x x]—10 LÚv.A.BA / [IGI mARAD]—dna-na-a LÚv.A.BA / [ITI.x x x] UD 07-KAM / [lim-mu mU].GUR—MAN—PAB LÚv.GAL—KAŠ.LUL
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335246.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335246). 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/P335246/.
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