SAA 06 110. Se’-madi, Village Manager, Buys 7 Slaves (681-XII-16) (ADD 0231)[via saao/saa06]


Obverse
o 1o 1	NA₄.KIŠIB ^mARAD—^d15	(1) Seal of Urda-Issar, owner of the people being sold.
o 22	EN UN-MEŠ ta-da-ni	(1) Seal of Urda-Issar, owner of the people being sold.

	two circular stamp seal impressions	(two stamp seal impressions)

o 33	^mḫa-am-nu-nu MÍ-šú MÍ.AMA-šú	(3) Hamnunu, his wife and mother, Addâ and Il-suri, his brothers, and his two sisters, a total of 7 persons, servants of Urda-Issar —
o 44	^mad-da-a ^mDINGIR—su^-ri o^ ŠEŠ-MEŠ-šú
o 55	02 NIN-MEŠ-šú PAB 07 ZI-MEŠ
o 66	ARAD-MEŠ ša ^mARAD—^d15
o 77	ú-piš-ma ^mse-eʾ—ma-⸢aʾ⸣-du	(7) Se'-madi, village manager of the crown prince, has contracted and bought them for two minas of silver by the (mina) of Carchemish.
o 88	LÚ^v.GAL—URU-MEŠ ša DUMU—MAN
o 99	ina ŠÀ 02 MA.NA KUG.UD ina ša o^* gar-ga-mis
o 1010	il-qi kás-pu ga-mur ta-din	(10) The money is paid completely. Those people are purchased and acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is void.
o 1111	UN-MEŠ šu-a-tú zar₄-pu la-qi-u
o 1212	tu-a-ru de-nu DUG₄.DUG₄
o 1313	la-áš-šú man-nu šá ina ur-kiš	(13) Whoever in the future, at any time, lodges a complaint and se[eks] a lawsuit or litigation shall place 10 minas of silver (and) one mina of gold in the lap of Ištar residing in Nineveh. He shall return the money tenfold to its owners. He shall contest in his lawsuit and not succeed.
o 1414	ina ma-te-ma i-za-qu-pa-ni
Bottom
b.e. 15b.e. 15	de-nu DUG₄.DUG₄ ub-ta-u-[ni]
Reverse
r 1r 1	10 MA.NA KUG.UD 01 MA.NA KUG.GI
r 22	ina bur-ki ^dIŠ.TAR a-ši-bat
r 33	URU.NINA GAR-an kas-pu a-na 10-MEŠ-te
r 44	a-na EN-MEŠ-šú ú-ta-ra
r 55	ina la de-⸢ni-šú⸣ DUG₄.DUG₄-ma
r 66	la i-la^*-qi

r 77	IGI ^m10—ta-ka-a	(r 7) Witness Adda-sakâ.
r 88	IGI ^mDI-mu—EN LÚ^v^*.GAL—URU-MEŠ	(r 8) Witness Šulmu-beli, village manager.
r 99	IGI ^m10—sa-na-ni LÚ^v^*.03-šú	(r 9) Witness Adda-sannanī, 'third man.'
r 1010	IGI ^mse-eʾ—ḫu-ut-ni LÚ^v^.GIŠ^.GIGIR^*	(r 10) Witness Se'-hutni, horse trainer.
r 1111	IGI ^m^dPA—I	(r 11) Witness Nabû-na'id.
r 1212	IGI ^mo^*	(r 12) Witness (blank)
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r 1313	ITI.ŠE UD-mu 16-KÁM	(r 13) Month Adar (XII), 16th day, eponym year of Nabû-ahu-ereš.
r 1414	lim-mu ^m^dPA—PAB—APIN-eš

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/P335178/.