Position in chronology
SAA 14 241. [...]-iddin Buys a Woman (ADD 0219)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(Beginning destroyed) (1) [...]-iddin [has contracted and bought her for] 1 1/2 (minas of) silver from them. (3) [The money] is paid completely. [That] maid [is purchas]ed and acquired. [Any revocation, la]wsuit, or litigation [is void]. (6) [Whoev]er in the future, at any time, [breaks the contract], shall place [x m]inas of silver (and) one mina of [gold in the lap of] Sin, [and shall return the money tenfold] to its owners. [He shall contest in] his lawsuit [and not succe]ed. (r 1) [......] (r 2) [......] ... (r 3) [Witness Gir]i-Dadi. (r 4) [Witness] Nusku-iddina. (r 5) [Witness] Sin-belu-uṣur. (r 6) [Witness ...b]i-atar. (r 7) [Witness ...]dî, chariot driver. (r 8) [Witness ...]anu-šarru, 'third man'. (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[x x x x x x x]—AŠ o* / [ina ŠÀ-bi*] 01* 1/2 KUG.UD TAv IGI*-šu*-nu* / [il-qi kas-pu] gam-mur ta-din GÉME / [šú*-a*-tú* za-ár]-⸢pat⸣ la-qí-at / [tu-a-ru] ⸢de⸣-ni DUG₄.DUG₄ [la-áš-šú] / [man]-⸢nu⸣ ša ina ur-kiš ina ⸢ma-te-ma⸣ / [i-GIL-u-ni x] ⸢MA⸣.NA KUG.UD 01 MA.NA / [KUG.GI ina bur-ki] d30 i-šak-kan / [kas-pu a-na 10-MEŠ-te] a-na EN-MEŠ-šú / [GUR-ra ina la] de-ni-šú / [DUG₄.DUG₄-ma la TI]-⸢qí*⸣…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335166.
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/P335166/..
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/P335166/.
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