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SAA 11 175. Women Sold(?) for Silver (ADD 0733)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) [For] half a mina of [silver]. (2) [1 wom]an (assigned) to N[anaya-... f]or half a mina of silver. (4) 1 [woman (assigned) to] Bel-abu'a [fo]r 1/3 (of a mina) of silver. (6) 1 woman (assigned) to Bel-ahhe[šu] for half a mina of silver. (8) [1] woman (assigned) to Banî [fo]r half a mina of silver. (r 1) 1 woman (assigned) to Šulmu-[...] for half a mina [of silver]. (r 3) 1 woman (assigned) to Abi-[...] for one third (of a mina) of silver. (r 5) 2 people (assigned) to Bel-ib[ni] for half a mina of silver. (r 7) 1 woman (assigned) to Kundayu for one and one-half minas of silver. (Rest destroyed)
Source: Fales, F.M. & Postgate, J.N. 1995. Imperial Administrative Records, Part II: Provincial and Military Administration. SAA 11. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa11/P335604/
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Transliteration
[ina ŠÀ] ⸢x⸣ MA.⸢NA⸣ [KUG.UD] / [01-et] ⸢MÍ⸣ ina IGI md⸢na?⸣-[na-a—x] / [ina] ŠÀ 1::2* MA.NA KUG.UD / [01]-⸢et⸣ [MÍ ina IGI] mEN*—AD-u-a / [ina] ⸢ŠÀ 03?-su?⸣ KUG.UD / 01-et MÍ ina IGI mEN—PAB-MEŠ-[šú] / ina ŠÀ 1::2 MA.NA KUG.UD / [01-et] MÍ ina IGI mba-ni-i / [ina] ⸢ŠÀ⸣ 1::2 MA.NA KUG.UD / ⸢01-et⸣ MÍ ina IGI m⸢DI*⸣—[x x] / ina ŠÀ 1::2 MA.NA [KUG.UD] / [01]-et MÍ ina IGI mAD—[x x] / ina ŠÀ 03-su…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian administrative record (provincial or military), edited by F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate (SAA 11, 1995). ORACC text P335604.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) ? — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335604). source
Translation excerpted from Fales, F.M. & Postgate, J.N. 1995. Imperial Administrative Records, Part II: Provincial and Military Administration. SAA 11. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa11/P335604/.
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