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SAA 14 037. Kakkullanu Buys a Woman as a Wife for His Servant (*630) (ADD 0309)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (seal space) (1) Abi-dal[â ...] — (2) Kakkullanu has contracted and bought her for half mina of silver as a wife for Ululayu, his servant, from Sukki-Aya (and) from his two sons. (7) [The money] is paid [completely]. [That] woman [is purchased and acquired]. (Break) (r 1) Witness La-qepu, ditto. (r 2) Witness Zizî, deputy of ditto. (r 3) Witness Aššur-killanni, royal bodyguard. (r 4) Witness Nabû-tariṣ, horse trainer of the king. (r 5) Witness Addî, from Kišq[a]. (r 6) Witness Hiriṣayu, [porter]. (Break) (e. 1) [Month ..., x]th day, eponym year of Ṣalmu-[šarri-iqbi], commander-in-chief of Co[mmagene].
Source: 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/P335254/
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Transliteration
MÍ.a-bi—da-⸢la?⸣ [x x x] / ú-piš-ma mkak-kul-la-nu / ina ŠÀ-bi 1/2 MA.NA KUG.UD / a-na mITI.KIN-a.a LÚ.ARAD-šú / a-na MÍ-u-te TA IGI mTE-a.a / TA IGI 02 DUMU-MEŠ-šú il-qi / [kas-pu gam-mur] SUM-ni MÍ [x x x] / IGI m⸢li⸣—qi-pu LÚv.: <(GAL—ki-ṣir)> / IGI mzi-zi-i LÚv.02-u ša LÚv.: <(GAL—ki-ṣir)> / IGI maš-šur—kil-la-an-ni LÚv.qur-ZAG / IGI mdPA—LAL-iṣ LÚv.GIŠ.GIGIR MAN / IGI mi-di-i KUR.kiš-⸢qa*⸣-[a.a] / IGI m⸢ḫi⸣-ri-ṣa-a.a LÚv.[Ì.DU₈] / [ITI.x UD x]-KÁM lim-mu m⸢NU?⸣—[MAN—E] / LÚv.tur-ta-nu KUR.⸢ku*⸣-[mu-ḫi]
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335254.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335254). 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/P335254/.
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