Position in chronology
SAA 06 341. Remanni-Adad Buys 30 Slaves (ADD 0424)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(Beginning destroyed) (2) 2 per[sons .......] (3) Nur-[......] (4) Ša-[......] (5) [.......] (6) Ban[î, ......], (7) Ereš-[..., NN]; a total of 12 persons. (8) [NN], his wife and daughter; Na'di-[... and NN]; a total of 5 persons, (r 1) in all 30 persons, servants of his house — (r 2) Remanni-Adad, chariot driver of the king of Assyria, has contracted and bought (said) fields, houses and people for 30 minas of silver from Arbailayu. (r 4) The money [is paid] comple[tely. Those fields, houses and peop]le [are purchased and acquired. Any rev]ocation, [lawsuit, or litigation is void]. (r 7)…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
01 [x x x x x x x x x x x x] / 02* ⸢ZI⸣-[MEŠ x x x x x x x x x] / mZÁLAG—[x x x x x x x x x x] / m⸢šá*—d*⸣[x x x x x x x x] / m⸢d⸣[x x x x x x x x x x] / mba-⸢ni*⸣-[i x x x x x x x] / mAPIN*-ka-⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x] / PAB 12 ZI-[MEŠ mx x x x x x] / MÍ-šú DUMU.MÍ-⸢su⸣ mI—[x x x x x] / PAB 05 ZI-MEŠ o* / PAB 30 ZI-MEŠ LÚv.ARAD-MEŠ ša É-šú ú-piš-ma / mrém-a-ni—10 LÚv.mu-kil—KUŠ.PA-MEŠ ša MAN…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335367.
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/P335367/..
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/P335367/.
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