SAA 06 090. Ahi-ṭalli , Governess, Buys 17 Persons With an Orchard (683-II-l) (ADD 0447)[via saao/saa06]
| Obverse | ||
| o 1o 1 | (1) Seal of Martu', village manager of the queen; seal of Mardî; a total of two men, servants of the governor of Barhalza, owners of the people being sold. | |
| o 22 | ||
| o 33 | ||
| o 44 | ||
| unused space for seal impressions | ||
| o 55 | mrém-ut—DINGIR-MEŠ AMA-šú 03 PAB-MEŠ-šú PAB 05 ZI | (5) Remut-ilani, his mother and his 3 brothers, a total of 5 persons; Šamaš-balassu and his son; Sasî, his two sons and his wife; Nabû'a, his 3 brothers and his sister, a total of 5 persons; Zabinu, gardener, his wife, and a fruit orchard; in all 17 persons and an orchard in the city of Nabur, servants of Martu' and Mardî — |
| o 66 | ||
| o 77 | ||
| o 88 | ||
| o 99 | ||
| o 1010 | ||
| o 1111 | (11) [Ahi-ṭa]lli, gov[erness] of Nineveh, has contracted and [bought them] fr[om these men for x minas of silver by the mina of] Carche[mish]. | |
| o 1212 | ||
| o 1313 | ||
| o 1414 | ||
| o 1515 | (15) [The money is paid compl]etely. [Those people and the orcha]rd [are purchased and acquired]. Any revocation, laws[uit or litigation is void]. | |
| o 1616 | ||
| o 1717 | ||
| Reverse | ||
| r 1r 1 | ||
| r 22 | (r 2) [Whoever in the future, at any time], lodges a complaint, breaks the contra]ct, and seeks a lawsuit or litigation against the governess, shall return the money tenfold to its owners. He shall contest in his lawsuit and not succeed. | |
| r 33 | ||
| r 44 | ||
| r 55 | ||
| r 66 | ||
| r 77 | ||
| r 88 | (r 8) Witness Nabû-šumu-iddina, scribe. | |
| r 99 | (r 9) Witness Lahirayu. | |
| r 1010 | (r 10) Witness Zar-Issar, chief weaver. | |
| r 1111 | (r 11) Witness Nabutî, weaver. | |
| r 1212 | (r 12) Witness Marduk-iddina, chariot fighter. | |
| r 1313 | (r 13) Witness Šarru-emuranni. | |
| r 1414 | (r 14) Witness Nabû-naṣir. Witness Mazzugu. | |
| r 1515 | (r 15) Witness Banî, scribe. | |
| r 1616 | ITI.GUD UD 01-KÁM MU 23 md30—PAB-MEŠ—SU | (r 16) Month Iyyar (II), 1st day, year 23 of Sennacherib, king of Assyria, eponym year of Mannu-ki-Adad-milki [o]f Ṣupat. |
| r 1717 | ||
| r 1818 |
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/P335388/.