SAA 14 012. Manageress Buys Two Slaves (ADD 0267)

~655 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P335214

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 14

High confidence

(Beginning destroyed) (2) [owner] of the wom[en being sold]. (seal impression) (3) Banitu-ter[eš and NN], in all 2 persons belonging to [NN] and Paqa-a[na-...] — (6) [NN], the harem manageress of [...], has contracted and [bought] them for 50 sh[ekels of silver]. (9) The money [is paid completely]. (Break) (r 1) [Witne]ss [NN]. (r 2) Witness Šulm[u-...]. (r 3) Witness Aššur-ma[...]. (r 4) Witness Urdu-Aya, [...]. (r 5) Witness Mudab[irayu]. (r 6) Witness Isana[yu]. (r 7) Witness Nabû-šarru-uṣur, [...]. (r 8) Witness Mudammiq-Aššur, [...]. (r 9) Witness Šar-Issar, [...]. (r 10) Witness Iqbi-ilu, [...]. (r 11) Witness Aššur-bel-ilani, [...]. (r 12) Witness Luqu, [...]. (e. 1) (Aramaic caption:) [...]...

State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).

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Transliteration

[x]+⸢x⸣ [x x x x] / [EN] MÍ-[MEŠ SUM-ni] / MÍ.dba-ni-tú—⸢APIN⸣ [x x x x x] / PAB 02 ZI-MEŠ šá m[x x x x] / šá mpa-qa—a-[na—x x x] / ú-piš-ma MÍ.[x x x x x] / šá-kín-tú šá [x x x] / ina ŠÀ-bi 50* ⸢GÍN⸣-[MEŠ KUG.UD TI] / kas-pu [gam-mur ta-din] / ⸢IGI⸣ m[x x x x x] / IGI mDI-⸢mu⸣—[x x x] / IGI maš-šur—ma-⸢x⸣+[x x] / IGI mARAD-a.a [x x x] / IGI mmu-da-⸢bir⸣-[a.a] / IGI mi-sa-na-[a.a] / IGI…

Scholarly note

Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335214.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335214). source
Translation excerpted from Mattila, R. 2002. Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part II: Assurbanipal through Sin-šarru-iškun. SAA 14. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa14/P335214/.

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