Position in chronology
SAA 06 239. Dannaya Buys Three Maids (676-1-25) (ADD 0256)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Seal of Sin-ahu-iddina, seal of Tuwi, a total of 2 men, owners of the women being so[ld]. (cylinder seal impression) (4) Hazalâ, Hud[a...], Ahati-immâ, [a total of 3 women, [female s]ervants of [these] gentleme[n] — (7) [Dann]aya [has contr]acted and [boug]ht them [from] these [gentleme]n [for x shek]els of silver [by the min]a of Carchemish. (11) The money is [paid completely]. T[hose] women [are purchased and acquired] (Break) (r 1) [He shall return the money ten]fold to [its] own[ers]. He shall contest [in] his [lawsuit] and not [succeed]. (r 3) [Witness Ibn]aya, son of Bel-šarru-ibni.…
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/P335203/
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Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB md30—PAB—SUM-na / NA₄.KIŠIB mtu-u-i / PAB 02 LÚ-MEŠ-e EN MÍ-MEŠ SUM-ni / MÍ.ḫa-za-la-a MÍ.ḫu-⸢da⸣-[x x x] / MÍ.NIN—im-ma-a [PAB 03 MÍ]-MEŠ / ⸢GÉME⸣-MEŠ ša LÚ-MEŠ [an-nu]-⸢te⸣ / [ú]-⸢piš⸣-ma m[da]-⸢na*⸣-a.a / [ina ŠÀ x] ⸢GÍN⸣-MEŠ KUG.UD / [ina 01 MA].NA-e ša URU.gar-ga-mis / [TA IGI LÚ]-MEŠ-e an-nu-u-te / [x x il]-⸢qi⸣ kas-pu [o*] / [gam*-mur* ta-din] MÍ-MEŠ šú-[a-te] / [kas-pu a-na…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335203.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335203). 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/P335203/.
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