Position in chronology
SAA 14 085. Zabdi Buys a Woman (652-IV) (ADD 0533)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(Beginning destroyed) (stamp seal impression) (1) Ahat-abiša, daughter of Ubru-Aššur — (3) Zabdî has contracted and boug[ht] her from Ubru-Aššur in lieu of 30 shekels of silver. Belonging to Zabdî (and) belonging to [DN]. (7) In lieu of his debts he has given his daughter to Zabdî. That woman is purchased and [ac]quired. [Any] revocation, lawsuit, or litigation [is void]. (12) [Whoever in the fu]ture, (Break) (r 1) [...] and seeks a lawsuit or litig[ation] against Zabdî, his sons and his grandsons, (r 4) shall place 10 minas of silver (and) one mina of pure gold in the lap of Ištar residing…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
⸢MÍ.NIN⸣—AD-šá DUMU.MÍ-⸢su⸣ / ⸢ša⸣ mSUḪUŠ—aš-šur / ⸢ú⸣-piš-ma mza-ab-di-i / TAv IGI mSUḪUŠ—aš-šur / ku*-um* 30 GÍN-MEŠ KUG.UD ⸢il*-qí*⸣ / ⸢šá*⸣ mza-ab-di-i šá d[x x x] / ⸢ku-um⸣ ḫa-bul-le-e-⸢šú⸣ / DUMU.MÍ-su a-na mzab-di-⸢i*⸣ / ⸢it⸣-ti-din MÍ šu-a-tú* / ⸢za⸣-ar-pat ⸢laq*⸣-qí-at / [tu]-⸢a*-ru* de*-e*⸣-nu DUG₄.DUG₄ / [la-áš-šú man-nu šá ina] ⸢ur*⸣-kiš / [x]+⸢x⸣+[x]+⸢x de*⸣-e*-nu* ⸢DUG₄*.DUG₄*⸣ /…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335467.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335467). 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/P335467/.
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