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SAA 06 289. Šamaš-abu-uṣur Buys a Slave (670) (ADD 0181)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [Instead of] his [sea]l he impressed his fingernail. (blank seal space) (2) [Fingernail] of Aššur-naṣir, owner of the man. (3) Ahu-le'iti, his slave — (4) Šamaš-abu-uṣur has contracted and bought him from Aššur-naṣir for 50 minas of copper. (7) The money is paid comple[tely]. That man is purchased and acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit or litigation is void. (10) Whoever in the future, at any time, whether Aššur-naṣir or his sons or brothers or his governor, whoever seeks a lawsuit or litigation [against] Šamaš-abu-uṣur [or his sons], shall place [x minas of silv]er and one mina of gold…
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/P335131/
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Transliteration
[ku-um NA₄].⸢KIŠIB⸣-šú ṣu-bar-šú ⸢iš-kun⸣ / [ṣu-bar] maš-šur—PAB-ir EN LÚ / mPAB—le-ʾi-ti : ARAD-šú / ú-tap-piš mdUTU—AD—PAB / TAv IGI maš-šur—PAB-ir / ina ŠÀ-bi 50 MA.NA URUDU-ME* / i-si-qi! kas-pu gam-<mur> ta-din-ni / LÚ šu-a-tú za-rip la-qi! / GUR de-nu DUG₄.DUG₄ la-šú / man-nu šá ina ur-kiš ina ma-te-ma / lu maš-šur—PAB-ir lu DUMU-MEŠ-šú / lu ŠEŠ-MEŠ-šú lu LÚv.EN.NAM-su / man-⸢nu ša⸣ de-nu…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335131.
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/P335131/..
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/P335131/.
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