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SAA 14 014. Manageress of Assur Buys a Woman (ADD 0209)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [Sea]l of Ahu'a-eriba, [overseer of the household of] the land of Barha[lza, owner] of the woman being sold. (stamp seal impressions) (4) Abi-lihiya, the maid of Ahu'a-eriba, overseer of the household — (6) the harem manageress of the city of Assur has contracted and bought her for half mina and 5 shek[els of silver]. (8) The mone[y] is paid [completely]. T[hat] woman is purchased and ac[quired]. Any revocation, lawsu[it, or litigation] is void. (12) Whoever [in the future], at any time, lodges a com[plaint] and breaks the contract, whet[her Ahu'a-eriba] or his master, and seeks a…
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/P335156/
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Transliteration
[NA₄].⸢KIŠIB⸣ mPAB-u-a—SU [LÚ.šá—UGU—É] / [ša] ⸢KUR⸣.bar-ḫa-[za] / [EN] MÍ SUM-ni / MÍ.AD—li-iḫ-ia GÉME-šú / ša mPAB-u.a—SU LÚ.šá—UGU—É / tu-piš-ma MÍ.GAR.KUR-tú URU.aš-šur / ina ŠÀ-bi 1/2 MA.NA ⸢05 GÍN⸣ [KUG.UD] / ta-al-qi kas-⸢pu⸣ [gam-mur] / ta-din MÍ ⸢šu⸣-[a-te] / za-ar-pa-at ⸢la⸣-[qi-at] / tu-a-ru de-e-[nu DUG₄.DUG₄] / la-áš-šú man-nu ša* [ina ur-kiš] / ina ma-te-ma i-za-[qu-pa-a-ni] /…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335156.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335156). 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/P335156/.
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