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SAA 14 039. Kakkullanu Buys a Man in Exchange for a Woman (*625-II-20) (ADD 0318)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Seal of Nabû-ahu-uṣur, seal of Ahuni, in all 2 sons, sons of Nargî, (3) Seal of Ahi-nuri, son of Se-ili, (4) in all 3 men, owners of the man given in exchange for the woman. (stamp seal impressions) (6) Issar-dur-qalli, servant of these men — (8) Kakkullanu, cohort commander, has contracted, purchased and acquired him as an exchange for Abi-liha, his maid, from these men. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is void. (14) Whoever in the future, at any time, lodges a complaint and breaks the contract, whether Nabû-ahu-uṣur, whether Ahuni, whether Ahi-nuri, or their 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/P335263/
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Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB mdPA—PAB—PAB NA₄.KIŠIB mPAB-u-ni / PAB 02 DUMU-MEŠ DUMU mnar-gi-i / NA₄.KIŠIB mPAB—ZÁLAG DUMU msi-i-li / PAB 03 LÚ-MEŠ-e EN LÚ a-na šá-pu-si / ina ŠÀ MÍ SUM-a-ni / md15—BÀD—qa-a-li ARAD-šú-nu / ša LÚ-MEŠ-e an-nu-te / ú-piš-ma mkak-kul-la-nu LÚv.GAL—ki-ṣir / ina ŠÀ-bi MÍ.AD—li-iḫ-a GÉME-šú / šá-pu-u-su TAv IGI LÚ-MEŠ-e / an-nu-te i-zi-rip / it-ti-ši tu-a-ru de-e-nu / DUG₄.DUG₄ la-áš-šú /…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335263.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335263). 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/P335263/.
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