SAA 06 195. Šamaš-ila’i, Chief [...], Buys 6 Slaves (681-V-25) (ADD 0269)[via saao/saa06]


Obverse
o 1o 1	NA₄.KIŠIB ^mlu-u—bal-aṭ	(1) Seal of Lu-balaṭ, owner of the people being sold.
o 22	EN LÚ.UN-MEŠ SUM-ni	(1) Seal of Lu-balaṭ, owner of the people being sold.

	unused space for seal impressions	(space for seal impressions)

o 33	^m^dPA—še-zib MÍ-šu 04 DUMU-⸢MEŠ^-šú^⸣	(3) Nabû-šezib, his wife, [hi]s 4 son[s, a total] of 6 people, servants [of] Lu-balaṭ —
o 44	[PAB] 06 ZI-MEŠ LÚ.ARAD-⸢MEŠ⸣-[ni]
o 55	[ša] ^mlu-u—bal-aṭ ú-⸢piš-ma^*⸣
o 66	[^m^d]⸢UTU—DINGIR⸣-a.a LÚ.GAL—[x x x] ⸢x x⸣	(6) [Šama]š-ila'i, chi[ef ......], has contr[acted and bought them from Lu]-balaṭ
o 77	[TA^v IGI ^mlu-u]—bal-[aṭ x x x]
	rest broken away	(Break)
Reverse
rr	beginning broken away
r 1'1'	[x x x x x] ⸢LÚ⸣.še-⸢lap⸣-pa-⸢a⸣.[a]	(r 1) [Witness NN], archit[ect].
r 2'2'	[IGI ^mx x x]-an-ni	(r 2) [Witness ...]anni.
r 3'3'	[IGI ^mx x x]-⸢ib^*⸣ LÚ.na-sik-ku	(r 3) [Witness ...]ib, sheikh.
r 4'4'	[IGI ^m]⸢mar^⸣-da^-a-na IGI ^mna-tan	(r 4) [Wit]ness Mardanu. Witness Natan.
r 5'5'	[IGI ^m]ba-la-su IGI ^mbar—za-qe-e	(r 5) [Witness] Balassu. Witness Bar-zaqê.
r 6'6'	IGI ^mDINGIR—ZU LÚ.A.BA ṣa-bit	(r 6) [Wit]ness Ilu-le'i, scribe, keeper of the document.
r 7'7'	dan-ni-te ITI.NE UD 25-KÁM	(r 7) Month Ab (V), 25th day, eponym year of Nabû-ahu-ereš.
r 8'8'	lim-mu ^m^dPA—PAB—KAM-eš	(r 7) Month Ab (V), 25th day, eponym year of Nabû-ahu-ereš.
r 9'9'	IGI ^m^dra-man—dàl-a URU.šá—za-bi-na-a.a	(r 9) Witness Ramman-dalâ, from Šazabinâ.
r 10'10'	IGI ^mPAB—IGI.LAL A ^maš-šur—AD—PAB	(r 10) Witness Ahu-lamur, son of Aššur-abu-uṣur.

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/P335216/.