Position in chronology
SAA 14 017. Ninuayu Buys a Woman (*633-II-14) (ADD 0214)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(Beginning destroyed) (stamp seal impressions) (2) [...]mali, his maid — (3) Ninuayu, eunuch the king, [has contract]ed and bought her for 35 shekels of silver from Yamani. (6) The money is paid completely. That woman is purchased and acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is void. (9) Whoever in the future, at any time, lodges a complaint and breaks the contract, [whether Ya]mani or his sons [or his brothers, and seeks a l]awsuit or litigation (Break) (r 1) [(shall place x minas of silver)] in the lap of [DN], and shall return the money tenfold to its owner. He shall contest in his…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[x x x x x x] ⸢x⸣ [x x x x x] / [MÍ.x x]-⸢ma⸣-li GÉME-šú / [ú-piš]-ma mNINA.KI-a.a / ⸢LÚ⸣.SAG LUGAL ina ŠÀ-bi 35* GÍN-MEŠ / [KUG].UD TAv IGI mia-a-ma-ni il-qi / kas-pu ga-mur ta-din MÍ šu-a-tú / za-rip la-qi tu-a-ru de-e-nu / DUG₄.DUG₄.DUG₄ la-áš-šú / man-nu šá ina ur-kiš ina ma-te-ma / ⸢i⸣-za-qu-o*-ni GIL-u-ni / [lu-u mia]-a-ma-ni lu DUMU-MEŠ-šú / [lu PAB-MEŠ-šú ša] ⸢de⸣-e-nu DUG₄.DUG₄ / ina…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335161.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335161). 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/P335161/.
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