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SAA 06 152. Purchase of a Woman (687-IV-15) (ADD 0218)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) has bought (her) for one talent copper. (2) The money is paid completely. Any revocation or litigation is void. (4) Whoever in the future or at any time lodges a complaint, saing: "I will release the woman," shall pay one mina of silver to release her. (8) Month Tammuz (IV), 15th day, eponym year of Sennacherib, king of Assyria. (r 1) Witness Mannu-ki-Adad, chief [...]. (r 2) Witness Ruradidi, eunuch of the (harem) governess. (r 4) Witness Gallulu, porter. (r 5) Witness Ziziya, ditto. (r 6) Witness Muqallil-kabti, ditto. (r 7) Witness Nabû-duru-uṣur, eunuch. (r 8) Witness [D]unqi-Issar. (r 9) [Witness ...]aya (Rest destroyed)
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/P335165/
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Transliteration
ina ŠÀ-bi bi-lat URUDU-[MEŠ] / il-qi kas-pu ga-⸢mur⸣ [ta-din] / tu-a-ru DUG₄.DUG₄ la-a-[šu] / man-nu ša ina ur-kiš lu-u ina* ⸢ma*-ti*-ma*⸣ / i-za-qu-ba*-ni / ma-a MÍ a-paṭ-ṭar / 01 MA.NA KUG.UD SUM-an i*-paṭ*-ṭar* / o* ITI.ŠU UD 15-KÁM / lim-mu m30—PAB-MEŠ—SU / MAN KUR—aš-šur.KI / IGI mman-nu—GIM—10 GAL—[x x] / IGI mru-ra-di-di / LÚv.SAG šá MÍ.šá-kín-te / IGI mga-lu-lu Ì.DU₈ / IGI mzi-zi-ia : / IGI mmu-qa-lil—IDIM-tú : / IGI mdPA—BÀD—PAB LÚ.SAG / IGI m[du]-un*-qí—15 [o?] / [IGI mx x x]-a-a
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335165.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335165). 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/P335165/.
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