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 8) Witness Urda-Gula, deputy of the chief physician.
r 10'10'	[IGI] ^m^dPA—⸢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⸣ ^m^dPA—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/.