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SAA 06 228. Silim-Aššur Buys a Maid (ADD 0227)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [Sea]l of Nabû-duru-kuṣur, eunuch, owner of the woman being sold. (blank seal space) (3) Mullissu-duru-uṣur, the maid of Nabû-duru-kuṣur — (5) Silim-Aššur has contracted and bought her from Nabû-duru-kuṣur for 1/2 mina of silver. (7) The money is paid completely. That woman is purchased and acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is void. (10) Whoever i[n the] future, at any time, [breaks the contract, whether] Nabû-duru-kuṣur [or his brothers or] neph[ews, and se]ek[s a lawsuit or litigation] (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/P335174/
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Transliteration
[NA₄].⸢KIŠIB⸣ mdPA—⸢BÀD⸣—ku-ṣur / [LÚv].SAG EN MÍ SUM-ni / [MÍ].dNIN.LÍL—BÀD—PAB* GÉME / šá mdPA—BÀD—ku-ṣur ú-piš-ma / msi-lim—aš-šur TAv IGI mdPA—BÀD—ku-ṣur / ina ŠÀ-bi 1/2* MA.NA KUG.UD ⸢il-qí⸣ / kas-pu gam-mur ta-din MÍ šu-a-tú / zar-pat la-qi-at tú*-a-ru / de-nu* DUG₄.DUG₄ la-áš-šu / man-nu ša [ina ur]-kiš ina ma-⸢te⸣-ma / [GIL-u-ni lu-u] mdPA—BÀD—ku-ṣur / [lu-u PAB-MEŠ-šú lu-u DUMU]—⸢PAB*⸣-MEŠ-šú / [ša de-nu DUG₄.DUG₄ ub-ta]-⸢u-ni⸣
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335174.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335174). 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/P335174/.
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