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SAA 06 193

  • CDLI P335224
  • Collection no.: BM —
  • Accession no.: K 00354
  • Primary publication(s): ADD 0277

Details

  • Provenience: Kuyunjik (Nineveh) (Pleiades ID: 874621)
  • Archive: 099 - Miscellaneous
  • Language: Akkadian
  • Genre: Legal Transaction
  • Object type: tablet
  • Material: clay
  • Script: Neo-Assyrian

Date

  • Period: Neo-Assyrian
  • Reign: Sennacherib (704–681 BC)
  • Dated: yes
  • Date: 681-II-12 ([Month Iyy]ar (II), 12th day, eponym year of Nabû-ahhe-[ereš, gover]nor of Sam'[al])

Sender Information

SAA 06 193. Purchase of Slaves (681-II-12) (ADD 0277)[via saao/saa06]

Obverse
o 1o 1

NA₄.KIŠIB m⸢dAG*⸣—SU ⸢LÚ*⸣.[x x x]

(1) Seal of Nabû-eriba, [...], servant of the gover[nor], owner of the people being so[ld].

o 22

⸢ARAD*⸣ LÚ*.⸢EN*⸣.[NAM] EN UN-MEŠ ⸢SUM*⸣-[ni]

2 stamp seal impressions

(stamp seal impressions)

o 33

[mx x x]—NUMUN MÍ-šú PAB ⸢02⸣ [o]

(3) [NN], his wife, a total of 2;

o 44

[mx x x x] MÍ-šú PAB ⸢02⸣ [o]

(4) [NN], his wife, a total of 2;

o 55

[mx x x x] ⸢02⸣ DUMU-MEŠ-šú ⸢x⸣+[x x x]

(5) [NN], his 2 sons [...];

o 66

[MÍ.x x x x] DUMU-šá PAB* [02]

(6) [NN], her son, a total of [2];

o 77

[x x x x x] ⸢URU⸣.ḫi?-⸢x⸣+[x x x x]

(7) [......] the city of [...]

rest (about half of the obverse) broken away

(Break)

Reverse
rr beginning broken away

r 1'1'

[x x x x x] ni [x x x x x*]

(r 1) [......] shall re[turn the money tenfold to] its [owne]rs.

r 2'2'

[x x x x EN]-⸢MEŠ*⸣-šú ú-[ta-ra*]

r 3'3'

[IGI m]⸢U*.GUR*⸣—DÙ LÚ*.03*-[šú]

(r 3) [Witness] Nergal-ibni, 'third [man].'

r 4'4'

[IGI m]man-nu—ki—PAB-MEŠ ⸢LÚ*⸣.[x x x x]

(r 4) [Witness] Mannu-ki-ahhe, [...].

r 5'5'

[IGI m]DÙG.GA-i LÚ*.rak-[su?]

(r 5) [Witness] Ṭabî, cons[cript].

r 6'6'

[IGI m]EN—PAB—AŠ LÚ*.GIŠ.GIGIR—na-[kam-ti]

(r 6) [Witness] Bel-ahu-iddina, trainer of re[serve] horses.

r 8'8'

IGI mARAD—dgu-la LÚ*.02-ú

(r 8) Witness Urda-Gula, deputy of the chief physician.

r 9'9'

      ša LÚ*.GAL—A.ZU

r 10'10'

[IGI] mdPA—⸢MU*⸣—[x] LÚ*.A.BA ⸢ṣa⸣-[bit dan-ni-te]

(r 10) [Witness] Nabû-šumu-[...], scribe, kee[per of the document].

r 11'11'

[ITI].⸢GUD⸣ UD 12-KÁM

(r 11) [Month Iyy]ar (II), 12th day, eponym year of Nabû-ahhe-[ereš, gover]nor of Sam'[al].

Right
r.e. 12r.e. 12

[lim]-⸢mu⸣ mdPA—PAB-MEŠ—[KAM-eš]

r.e. 1313

[LÚ*.GAR].KUR ša sa-ma*-[al-la]

Edge
e. 1e. 1

[x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-a ša* KUR.[x x]

(e. 1) [......]... of the land of [...].

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/P335224/.