Position in chronology
SAA 06 151. Purchase of a Woman (687-III) (ADD 0225)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Seal of [NN], the owner [selling] his wife. (cylinder seal impression) (Break) (r 1) He shall place one mina [of silver and x minas of gold] in the lap of [...], and shall retu[rn the money tenfold] to its owners. He shall contest in his lawsuit and not [succeed]. (r 6) Witness Duduwa, chariot fighter of the governor of Cal[ah]. (r 8) Witness Urda-Issar. Witness Qaq[â]. (r 9) Witness Muquru. Witness Na'd[i-...]. (r 10) Month Sivan (III), [...th] day, eponym year of [Sennacherib], king of [Assyria]. (e. 1) [Witness] Nabû-šumu-iddina, scribe.
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/P335172/
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Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB md[x x x] / EN MÍ-⸢šú*⸣ [SUM-ni] / 01 MA.⸢NA⸣ [KUG.UD x MA.NA KUG.GI] / ina burur-ki ⸢d⸣[x x x x x] / i-šak-kan kas-pu a-⸢na⸣ [10-MEŠ-te] / ina EN-MEŠ-⸢šú*⸣ ú-GUR-⸢ra⸣ / ina de-ni-šú i-DUG₄.DUG₄ la [x x] / IGI mdu-du-u-a LÚv.A—⸢SIG⸣ / ša LÚv.EN.NAM ša URU.kal-[ḫa] / IGI mARAD—d15 IGI mqa-⸢qa*⸣-[a?] / IGI mmu-qu-ru IGI m⸢I?⸣—[x x x] / ITI.SIG₄ ⸢UD⸣ [x-KAM] / lim-mu m⸢d⸣[30—PAB-MEŠ—SU] / MAN KUR—[aš-šur.KI] / [IGI] mdPA—MU—AŠ LÚv.A.BA
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335172.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) ? — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335172). 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/P335172/.
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