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SAA 06 087. The Governess of the Central City Harem Buys Slaves (ADD 0263)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) [the gov]erness of the cen[tral city] (harem) has contracted [and bou]ght them for 10 mi[nas of silver]. (3) The money is paid completely. Those people are purchased and acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is void. (5) Whoever in the future, at any time, lodges a complaint, whether Se'-gabbari or his sons, grandsons, brothers or nephews, and seeks a lawsuit or litigation against the governess, his (sic) sons and grandsons, (r 1) shall place 10 minas of refined silver and one mina of pure gold in the lap of Ištar residing in Nineveh, shall tie two white…
Source: Kwasman, T. & Parpola, S. 1991. Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part I: Tiglath-Pileser III through Esarhaddon. SAA 6. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa06/P335210/
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Transliteration
⸢x x⸣ [x x x x (x) MÍ.šá]-⸢kin*-tú* ša* MURUB₄*⸣—[URU] / ina ŠÀ 10 MA.[NA KUG.UD] ⸢il⸣-qi / kas-pu gam-mur ta-din UN-MEŠ šu-a-tu / za-ar-pu laq-qi*-ú tu-a-ru de-e-nu / DUG₄.DUG₄ la-áš-šú man-nu ša ina ur-kiš / ina ma-te-e-ma i-zaq-qu-pan-ni / lu-u mse-eʾ—gab-ba-ri lu-u DUMU-MEŠ-šú / lu-u ⸢DUMU⸣—DUMU-MEŠ-šú lu-u ŠEŠ-MEŠ-šú lu-u DUMU-MEŠ—ŠEŠ-MEŠ-šú / ša TAv* MÍ.šá-kín-tú DUMU-MEŠ-šú…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335210.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Theodore Kwasman and Simo Parpola , Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part I: Tiglath-Pileser III through Esarhaddon (State Archives of Assyria, 6), 1991. 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/P335210/..
Translation excerpted from Kwasman, T. & Parpola, S. 1991. Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part I: Tiglath-Pileser III through Esarhaddon. SAA 6. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa06/P335210/.
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