Position in chronology
SAA 14 154. Abdunu Buys a Girl (*627-VIII-14) (ADD 0311)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Seal of Nabû-belu-uṣur, servant of Šamaš-šarrani, owner of the woman being sold. (stamp seal impressions) (4) Ahat-abiša, maid of Nabû-belu-uṣur, of 4 spans — (7) Abd[u]nu, son of Kukullayu, has contracted and [bought] f[o]r 2 1/2 shekels of silver. (9) The money is p[ai]d completely. That woman is purchased and acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is void. (12) Whoever in the future, at any [tim]e, lodges a complaint and breaks the contract, whether Nabû-belu-uṣur or his sons or his grandsons, and seeks a lawsuit or litigation against Abdunu, his sons and his grandsons, (r 5)…
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/P335256/
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Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB mdPA—EN—PAB / LÚ.ARAD šá md⸢UTU*—MAN*⸣-a*-ni / EN MÍ SUM-a-ni / MÍ.NIN—AD-šá GÉME-šú / ša mdPA—EN—PAB / 04 ru-u-ṭu / ú-piš-ma mab-⸢du-nu⸣ DUMU* m*ku*-ku-ul*-[la]-a-⸢a*⸣ / ina ⸢ŠÀ-bi⸣ 02 1/2 GÍN KUG.UD / [il-qi] kas-pu gam-mur / ⸢ta-din⸣ MÍ šu-a-tu za-ar-pat / la-qi-at tu-a-ru de-e-nu / DUG₄.⸢DUG₄⸣ la-áš-šú man-nu šá ina ur-kiš / ina ma-[te]-⸢ma⸣ i-za-qu-za-pa-ni / GIL-u-ni lu-u…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335256.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Raija Mattila, Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part II: Assurbanipal Through Sin-šarru-iškun (State Archives of Assyria, 14), 2002. Lemmatised by Melanie Groß, 2010–2011, as part of the FWF-funded research project "Royal Institutional Households in First Millennium BC Mesopotamia" (S 10802-G18) directed by Heather D. Baker at the University of Vienna. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P335256/..
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/P335256/.
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