Position in chronology
SAA 14 050. Kakkullanu Buys a Girl (ADD 0312)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(Beginning destroyed) (1) [......], owner of the woman being [sol]d. (stamp seal impressions) (3) Ummi-i'i, his maid of 3 spans — (5) Akkullanu, cohort commander of the crown prince, has contracted and bought her from Il-Iau, for 1/2 mina and 4 shekels of silver. (8) The money is paid completely. (9) Whoever breaks the contract, [whether Il-I]au, or his sons (Break) (r 1) and seeks a la[wsu]it or litigat[ion], (r 2) shall give 5 minas of silver, and shall return the money tenfold to its owner. (r 4) (Guaranteed against) seizures of epilepsy for 100 days (and against) fraud forever. (r 6)…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] / EN MÍ [ta-da]-⸢a*⸣-ni / MÍ.AMA—i-ʾi GÉME-šú / 03 ru-ṭu la-an-šá / ú-piš-ma ma-kul-la-nu GAL—ki-ṣir šá A—MAN / TAv IGI mDINGIR—ia-a-u / ina ŠÀ 1/2 MA.NA 04 GÍN KUG.UD / il-qi kas-pu gam-mur ta-din / o* ša GIL-u-ni / [lu-u mDINGIR—ia]-a-u lu-u DUMU-MEŠ-šú / ⸢de-nu⸣ DUG₄.⸢DUG₄ ub⸣-ta-u-⸢ni⸣ / 05 MA.NA KUG.UD SUM-an / kas-pu a-na 10-MEŠ ina EN*-šú* GUR-ra / ṣib-tú be-en-nu a-na 01…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335257.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335257). 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/P335257/.
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