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SAA 06 116. A Bodyguard Buys Three Women (700-VI-20) (ADD 0294)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [Seal of ......], owner [of the women being sold]. (stamp seal impressions) (3) Edu-qidira, the woman [...], and [her] daughter Babaya, a total of 3 persons, [his ser]vants — (6) Risa[ya], bodyguard of [...], has contracted [and bought them for x min]as of sil[ver]. (Break) (r 1) [Witness NN]... [...]. (r 2) [Witness] Aya-ahhe, far[mer ...]. (r 3) [Witness] Bel-le'i, far[mer ...]. (r 4) [Witness] Dari-bel, far[mer ...]. (r 5) [Witness] Nabi-ram, farm[er ...]. (r 6) [Witness] Ba'al-immi, ser[vant of ...]. (r 7) [Witne]ss Zabayu, from Bar[halzi]. (r 8) [Witne]ss Šada, from [...]. (r 9) [Witne]ss Ameqi, from [...]. (r 10) [Mo]nth Elul (VI), 2[0th day], eponym year of Met[unu]. (r 12) [Witness] Inurta-[...].
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/P335239/
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Transliteration
[NA₄.KIŠIB mx x x x x x x x] / EN [MÍ-MEŠ ta-da-ni] / MÍ.DIL*-qi-⸢di*⸣-ra MÍ.[x x x x x] / MÍ.ba-ba-a.a DUMU.[MÍ-sa] / PAB 03 ZI-MEŠ ARAD-⸢MEŠ⸣-[šú] / ú-piš-ma mri*-sa-[a.a] / [LÚ].⸢qur*-bu*⸣-ti ša* [x x x] / [ina ŠÀ x] ⸢MA⸣.NA* KUG*.[UD x x] / [IGI mx]+⸢x x⸣+[x x x x x x] / [IGI m]a.a—PAB-MEŠ LÚv.⸢ENGAR*⸣ [x x x] / [IGI] mEN—ZU LÚv.⸢ENGAR⸣ [x x x] / [IGI] mdà-ri—EN LÚv.⸢ENGAR⸣ [x x x] / [IGI]…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335239.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) ? — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335239). 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/P335239/.
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