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SAA 14 085. Zabdi Buys a Woman (652-IV) (ADD 0533)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (stamp seal impression) (1) Ahat-abiša, daughter of Ubru-Aššur — (3) Zabdî has contracted and boug[ht] her from Ubru-Aššur in lieu of 30 shekels of silver. Belonging to Zabdî (and) belonging to [DN]. (7) In lieu of his debts he has given his daughter to Zabdî. That woman is purchased and [ac]quired. [Any] revocation, lawsuit, or litigation [is void]. (12) [Whoever in the fu]ture, (Break) (r 1) [...] and seeks a lawsuit or litig[ation] against Zabdî, his sons and his grandsons, (r 4) shall place 10 minas of silver (and) one mina of pure gold in the lap of Ištar residing…
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/P335467/
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Transliteration
⸢MÍ.NIN⸣—AD-šá DUMU.MÍ-⸢su⸣ / ⸢ša⸣ mSUḪUŠ—aš-šur / ⸢ú⸣-piš-ma mza-ab-di-i / TAv IGI mSUḪUŠ—aš-šur / ku*-um* 30 GÍN-MEŠ KUG.UD ⸢il*-qí*⸣ / ⸢šá*⸣ mza-ab-di-i šá d[x x x] / ⸢ku-um⸣ ḫa-bul-le-e-⸢šú⸣ / DUMU.MÍ-su a-na mzab-di-⸢i*⸣ / ⸢it⸣-ti-din MÍ šu-a-tú* / ⸢za⸣-ar-pat ⸢laq*⸣-qí-at / [tu]-⸢a*-ru* de*-e*⸣-nu DUG₄.DUG₄ / [la-áš-šú man-nu šá ina] ⸢ur*⸣-kiš / [x]+⸢x⸣+[x]+⸢x de*⸣-e*-nu* ⸢DUG₄*.DUG₄*⸣ /…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335467.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335467). 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/P335467/.
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