Position in chronology
SAA 06 098. A Woman Purchases a Maid (682-XI-7) (ADD 0215)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [Se]al of Se'-zabadi, [owner] of the woman being sold. (stamp seal impressions) (3) Abi-ha'li, [the maid] of Se'-zaba[di] — (5) the woman La-teggi-a[na-...] has contracted and bought her from Se'-zabadi for 9 shekels of silver. (8) The money is [p]aid completely. That woman is purchased and acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is void. (11) Whoever in the fu[tur]e and at any time lodges a co[mplaint] and breaks the con[tract] shall place two minas of silver and two mi[nas of gold] in the lap of Nikkal, shall tie 4 white horses to the feet of Sin residing in Harran, and shall…
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/P335162/
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Transliteration
⸢NA₄⸣.KIŠIB mse-eʾ—za-ba-di / [EN] MÍ SUM-ni / ⸢MÍ⸣.AD—ḫa-aʾ-li [GÉME-šú*] / ša mse-eʾ—za-ba-[di] / ú-piš-ma MÍ.⸢la⸣—te-gi*—⸢a*⸣-[na—x x] / TAv* pa-an mse-eʾ—za-⸢ba⸣-di / ina ŠÀ-bi 09 GÍN-MEŠ KUG.UD il-qí / kas-pu gam-mur [ta]-⸢ad⸣-din / MÍ šu-a-⸢tu⸣ zar-⸢pat laq*-qi*⸣-at / tu-a-ru de-e-nu DUG₄.DUG₄ la-áš-šú / man-nu ša ina ur-kiš u* ma-[te]-⸢me*⸣ / i-za-qu-⸢pa⸣-[ni] / ⸢GIL⸣-MEŠ-u-[ni] / ⸢02?…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335162.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335162). source
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/P335162/.
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