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SAA 14 050. Kakkullanu Buys a Girl (ADD 0312)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) [......], owner of the woman being [sol]d. (stamp seal impressions) (3) Ummi-i'i, his maid of 3 spans — (5) Akkullanu, cohort commander of the crown prince, has contracted and bought her from Il-Iau, for 1/2 mina and 4 shekels of silver. (8) The money is paid completely. (9) Whoever breaks the contract, [whether Il-I]au, or his sons (Break) (r 1) and seeks a la[wsu]it or litigat[ion], (r 2) shall give 5 minas of silver, and shall return the money tenfold to its owner. (r 4) (Guaranteed against) seizures of epilepsy for 100 days (and against) fraud forever. (r 6)…
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/P335257/
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Transliteration
⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] / EN MÍ [ta-da]-⸢a*⸣-ni / MÍ.AMA—i-ʾi GÉME-šú / 03 ru-ṭu la-an-šá / ú-piš-ma ma-kul-la-nu GAL—ki-ṣir šá A—MAN / TAv IGI mDINGIR—ia-a-u / ina ŠÀ 1/2 MA.NA 04 GÍN KUG.UD / il-qi kas-pu gam-mur ta-din / o* ša GIL-u-ni / [lu-u mDINGIR—ia]-a-u lu-u DUMU-MEŠ-šú / ⸢de-nu⸣ DUG₄.⸢DUG₄ ub⸣-ta-u-⸢ni⸣ / 05 MA.NA KUG.UD SUM-an / kas-pu a-na 10-MEŠ ina EN*-šú* GUR-ra / ṣib-tú be-en-nu a-na 01…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335257.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335257). 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/P335257/.
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