Position in chronology
SAA 14 024. Luqu, Cohort Commander of the Crown Prince, Buys Women (659-II) (ADD 0233)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(1) Seal of [NN], seal of [NN], son of Hazi-[...], owner(s) of the wom[en being sold]. (stamp seal impressions) (5) Hambusu, [thei]r ma[id], and her daughter, upon the house [...] — (7) Luq[u], cohort commander of the crown pri[nce], has contracted and bought them for one mina and 8 shekels of silver. (10) The money is paid completely. Those women are purchased and acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is void. (14) Whoever in the future, at any time, lodges a complaint and breaks the contract, whether these men or their sons or their brothers, and seeks a lawsuit or litigation…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB m[x x x x x] / NA₄.KIŠIB m⸢x⸣+[x x x x] / DUMU mḫa-zi—[x x x x] / EN MÍ-[MEŠ SUM-ni] / MÍ.ḫa-am-bu-su ⸢GÉME⸣-[šú]-⸢nu*⸣ / DUMU.MÍ-sa ina UGU É? [x x] / ú-piš-ma mlu-⸢qu⸣ / LÚ.GAL—ki-ṣir šá A—⸢MAN⸣ / ina ŠÀ-bi 01 MA.⸢NA⸣ 08 GÍN KUG*.UD* / il-qi kas-pu ⸢gam⸣-mur / ta-din MÍ-MEŠ šu-a-tú / zar₄-patat! laq*-qi-ʾa / tu-a-ru de-nu DUG₄.DUG₄ / la-áš-šú man-nu ša ina ur-kiš / ina ma-te-ma…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335180.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335180). 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/P335180/.
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