Position in chronology
SAA 14 034. Kakkullanu Buys a Woman as a Wife for His Servant (*630-II-20) (ADD 0308)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [Seal of ...]..., [seal of A]hû'a-eriba, son of Aya-ahhe, [owner] of the woman being sold. (stamp seal impressions) (4) Ṣalentu, maid of these men — (6) Kakkullanu, cohort commander of the crown prince, has contracted and bought her (for) 1/2 mina, for Tarhunazi, his servant, as a wife. (9) The money is paid completely. That woman is purchased and acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is void. (13) Whoever in the future, at any time, lodges a complaint or breaks the contract, whether these men or his sons or his grandsons or his brothers or his (brothers') sons or their…
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/P335253/
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Transliteration
[NA₄.KIŠIB mx]-⸢ia*⸣-ka-a-⸢x⸣-a o* / [NA₄.KIŠIB m]⸢PAB⸣-u-a—SU DUMU ma.a—PAB-MEŠ / [EN] MÍ ta-SUM-ni / MÍ.ṣa-le-en-tú GÉME-šú-nu / ša LÚ-MEŠ-e an-nu-u-ti / ú-piš-ma mka-ku-la-nu LÚ.GAL—ṣir*-ki* / ša A—MAN 1/2 MA.NA a-na mtar-ḫu-na-zi ARAD*-šu* / a-na MÍ-su-ti il-qi / kas-pu gam-mur ta-din-ni / MÍ šú-a-te za-o*-pat là*-TI / tu-a-ru de-e-nu / DUG₄.DUG₄-MEŠ la-áš-šú / man-nu ša ina ur-kiš / ina…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335253.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335253). 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/P335253/.
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