Position in chronology
SAA 14 115. Ṣalmu-ahhe Buys a Woman (ADD 0217)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(Beginning destroyed) (stamp seal impressions ) (1) [...]-dibeša-libbi, maid of Se'-ayyali — (3) Ṣalmu-ahhe, has contracted and boug[ht] her for 1 1/2 mina of silver by (the mina) of [Carchemish] from Se'-ayyali. (6) The money is paid completely. That woman purchased and acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litiga[tion is void]. (9) Whoever in the future, at any [time], lodges a complaint and br[eaks the contract], whether Se'-ayya[li or his sons] (or) his grandsons o[r his brothers, and seeks a lawsuit or litigation] against Ṣalmu-ahh[e, his sons and] hi[s grand]sons (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[MÍ.x]+⸢x⸣-di-bé-e-šá—ŠÀ-bi GÉME*-[šú] / ša mdse-eʾ—a.a-li / ú-piš-ma mṣal-mu—PAB-meš o* / ina ŠÀ-bi 01 1/2 MA.NA KUG.UD ina šá URU.[gar-ga-mis] / TA IGI mse-eʾ—a.a-li il-⸢qi⸣ / kas-pu ga-mur ta-ad-din / MÍ šu-a-tú zar-pat la-qi-⸢at⸣ / tu-a-ru de-e-nu da-ba-[bu la-áš-šu] / man-nu ša ina ur-kiš ina ma-[te-ma] / i-za-qu-pa-ni ⸢GIL*⸣-[u-ni] / lu-u mse-eʾ—a.a-[li lu-u DUMU-MEŠ-šú] / DUMU—DUMU-MEŠ-šú ⸢lu⸣-[u PAB-MEŠ-šú] / TAv* mṣal-mu—PAB-⸢MEŠ*⸣ [DUMU-MEŠ-šú] / [DUMU]—⸢DUMU⸣-MEŠ-⸢šú⸣ [de-nu DUG₄.DUG₄]
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335164.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335164). 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/P335164/.
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