Position in chronology
SAA 14 008. Zarpi, Manageress, Buys a Woman (668-V-27) (ADD 0208)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Seal of Mannu-ki-A[rbail], owner of his sister being so[ld]. (stamp seal impressions) (3) Bililutu, sister of Mannu-ki-Arbail — (5) Zarpî, the harem manageress, has contracted and bou[ght] her for 1/2 mina of silver (by the mina of) Carchemish from Mannu-ki-Arbail. (8) The money is paid completely. That woman is purchased and acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is void. (11) Whoever in the future, at any time, lodges a complaint, whether Mannu-ki-Arbail or his sons, and seeks a lawsuit or litigation against Zarpî, (15) shall place 10 minas of silver (and) one mina of go[ld]…
Source: Mattila, R. 2002. Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part II: Assurbanipal through Sin-šarru-iškun. SAA 14. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa14/P335155/
Why it matters
Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB mman-nu—ki—URU.⸢arba*⸣-[ìl] / EN NIN-šú ta-⸢da⸣-[ni] / MÍ.bi-li-lu*-tú NIN-su / ša mman-nu—ki—URU.arba-ìl tu-piš-ma / MÍ.za-ar-pi-i šá-kín-tú / ina ŠÀ o* 1/2* MA.NA KUG.UD URU.gar-ga-mis / TAv IGI o* mman-nu—ki—URU.arba-ìl ta-⸢al⸣-[qí] / kas-pu ga-mur ta-din MÍ / šu-a-tu zar-patat la-qi-at / tu-a-ru de-nu DUG₄.DUG₄ la-áš-šú / man-nu šá ina ur-kiš ina ma-ti-e-ma / i-za-qu-pa-a-ni lu-u…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335155.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335155). source
Translation excerpted from Mattila, R. 2002. Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part II: Assurbanipal through Sin-šarru-iškun. SAA 14. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa14/P335155/.
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