Position in chronology
SAA 06 197. Tabni-Issar Buys a Maid (681-II-5) (ADD 0213)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Seal of Dari-abu'a, owner of the woman being sold. (space for stamp seal impressions) (3) Nanâ-lurši, maid of Dari-abu'a — (5) Tabni-Issar has contracted and [bou]ght her for 1 1/2 mi[nas of silver ...]. (6) The mo[ney] is paid [comp]letely. Th[at] woman [is purchased and acq]uired. (8) Whoever [lodges a complaint, whether Dar]i-ab[u'a or his sons, grandsons o]r [his brothers] o[r his nephews, and] seeks a lawsuit [against] Tabni-Issar, [his] son[s or grandsons], shall pay two minas of silver to redeem the woman. (r 2) Witness Barr[uqu]. (r 3) Witness Ag[ru]. (r 4) Witness Nabû-[zaqip-enši]. (r 5) Witness [NN]. (r 6) Witness Kima[maya]. (r 7) Witness Riha[ti]. (r 8) Month Iyyar (II), 5th day, the year after the eponym year of Nabû-šarru-uṣur, governor of Marqasa.
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/P335160/
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Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB mdà-ri—AD-u-a / EN MÍ SUM-ni / MÍ.dna-na—TUK-ši! GÉME-šú / ša mdà-ri—AD-u-a ú-piš-ma / mtab-ni—d15 ina ŠÀ 01 1/2 MA.[NA] / [KUG.UD x x x x] TI-qí ⸢kas⸣-[pu] / [gam]-⸢mur⸣ ta-din MÍ šú-[a-te zar-pat] / [la]-⸢qi⸣-at man-nu ⸢ša⸣ [i-za-qu-pa-ni GIL-u-ni] / [lu-u mdà]-⸢ri⸣—AD-[u-a lu-u DUMU-MEŠ-šú] / [lu-u DUMU—DUMU-MEŠ-šú] ⸢lu*⸣-u [ŠEŠ-MEŠ-šú] / ⸢lu⸣-[u DUMU—PAB-MEŠ-šú ša TAv*] /…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335160.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335160). 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/P335160/.
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