Position in chronology
SAA 06 257. A Servant of a Prince Buys a Slave (680-I-10) (ADD 1194)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Seal of Nabû-ṣalli, brother of Hazail, (2) seal of Riša-abiša, widow of Hazail, (3) a total of 2 gentlemen, servants of the lady of the house of the crown prince, owners of the man being sold. (stamp seal impressions) (5) Mar-suri, servant of these gentlemen — (7) Ilu-iṣṣur, servant of the crown prince, from the town of Illat, has contracted and bought him from these gentlemen for one mina of silver by the mina of Carchemish. (11) The money is paid completely. That man is purchased and acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is void. (13) Whoever in the future, at any time,…
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/P335974/
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Transliteration
⸢NA₄.KIŠIB⸣ mdPA—ṣal-li ŠEŠ-šú ša mḫa-za—DINGIR / NA₄.KIŠIB MÍ.ri-šá-o*—AD-šá MÍ.NU.KÚŠ.Ù / ša mḫa-za—DINGIR PAB 02 LÚ-MEŠ-e ARAD-MEŠ-ni / ša GAŠAN—É ša DUMU—MAN EN LÚ SUM-ni / mmar—su-ri ARAD-šú-nu / ša LÚ-MEŠ-e an-nu-te ú-piš-ma / mDINGIR—PAB ARAD ša DUMU—LUGAL URU.il*-lat*-a.a / TAv pa-an LÚ-MEŠ-e an-nu-te / ina ŠÀ 01 MA.NA KUG.UD ina ma-né-e / ša URU.gar-ga-mis il-qí / kas-pu ⸢gam⸣-mur ta-din…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335974.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Theodore Kwasman and Simo Parpola , Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part I: Tiglath-Pileser III through Esarhaddon (State Archives of Assyria, 6), 1991. Lemmatised by Melanie Groß, 2010–2011, as part of the FWF-funded research project "Royal Institutional Households in First Millennium BC Mesopotamia" (S 10802-G18) directed by Heather D. Baker at the University of Vienna. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P335974/..
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/P335974/.
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