Position in chronology
SAA 14 337. Purchase of Slaves (ADD 0789)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (blank seal space) (1) [...] his [wi]fe, (2) [...] his [wi]fe, (3) [...] his daughter, (4) [......] (5) [... ...]-ili, his wife, (6) [in all x persons, servant]s [of ...] — (7) [...] has contra[cted] (Break) (r 1) [Whoever in the futur]e, at any tim[e, lodges a complai]nt and breaks the contract, [shall pla]ce [x mina of silver (and) x] mina of gold [in the lap of Iš]tar residing in [..., and shall retu]rn the money [tenfold to its owner. He shall contest in his lawsuit and n]ot succeed. (r 8) [......]-iqbi (r 9) [...], overseer of women. (r 10) [......]ribi (Rest destroyed)
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/P335643/
Why it matters
Transliteration
[x x x x x x] ⸢MÍ⸣-šú / [x x x x x x] ⸢MÍ?⸣-šú / [x x x x x] DUMU.MÍ-su / [x x x x x x x x] / [x x x x x mx x x]—DINGIR? MÍ-šú / [PAB x ZI-MEŠ ARAD]-MEŠ-ni / [ša mx x x x x] ú-⸢piš⸣-[ma] / [man-nu šá ina ur]-⸢kiš⸣ ina ma-te-[ma] / [i-za-qu-pa]-ni GIL-u-ni / [x MA.NA KUG.UD x] MA.NA KUG.GI / [ina bur-ki dIŠ].TAR a-šib-bat / [x x x x i-šak]-kan kas-pu / [ana 10-MEŠ ana EN-šú GUR]-ra / [ina de-ni-šú DUG₄.DUG₄-ma] ⸢la⸣ i-laq-qi / [x x x x x x x x]—iq-bi / [x x x x x] LÚv?.GAL—MÍ-MEŠ / [x x x x x x x x]-ri?-bi
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335643.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335643). 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/P335643/.
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