SAA 06 177. Purchase of Slaves (684-II-8) (ADD 0230)[via saao/saa06]
Obverse | ||
o 1o 1 | (1) Seal of Nabû-eriba, owner of the people being sold. | |
o 22 | ||
cylinder seal impression | ||
o 33 | mkan-da-la-nu ⸢03⸣ DUMU-MEŠ-šú | (3) Kandalanu, his 3 sons, wife and two daughters, his brother and his two sons — |
o 44 | ||
o 55 | (5) Ululayu has contracted and bought them from Nabû-eriba for 6 minas of silver by the mina of Carchemish. | |
o 66 | ||
o 77 | ||
o 88 | ||
o 99 | (9) The money is paid completely. Those people are purchased and acquired. | |
o 1010 | ||
o 1111 | (11) Whoever in the future, at any time, breaks the contract, whether Nabû-eriba or the governor or the deputy (governor), and seeks a lawsuit or litig[ation], shall pay 12 minas of silver. | |
o 1212 | ||
o 1313 | ||
Bottom | ||
b.e. 14b.e. 14 | ||
Reverse | ||
r 1r 1 | (r 1) Witness Nabû-le'ani, 'third man.' | |
r 22 | ||
r 33 | (r 3) Witness Šulmu-beli-lamur, ditto. | |
r 44 | (r 4) Witness Nuranu, cohort commander. | |
r 55 | (r 5) Witness Mannu-ki-Issar-le'i, ditto. | |
r 66 | (r 6) Witness Nuhšaya, porter. | |
r 77 | (r 7) Witness Dadi-ibni, 'third man.' | |
r 88 | (r 8) Witness Aplu-šezibanni, chariot fighter. | |
r 99 | (r 9) Witness Kusisî. Witness Nurtî. | |
r 1010 | (r 10) Witness Risaya. | |
r 1111 | (r 11) Witness Tatî, scribe, keeper of the tablet. | |
r 1212 | ||
r 1313 | (r 13) Witness Nergal-ili. Witness Humamati. | |
r 1414 | (r 14) Witness Nabû-ašared, scribe. | |
r 1515 | (r 15) Witness Aššur-abu-uṣur, scribe. | |
r 1616 | (r 16) Month Iyyar (II), 8th day, eponym year of Manzarnê, governor of Kullania, year 22 of Sennacherib, king of Assyria. | |
r 1717 | ||
r 1818 | ||
r 1919 | MU 22-KÁM md30—PAB-MEŠ—SU | |
r 2020 |
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/P335177/.