Position in chronology
SAA 14 125. Šamaš-kenu-uṣur Receives a Woman in Lieu of Blood Money (ADD 0321)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(Beginning destroyed) (blank seal space) (1) Now they have come to an agreement. He shall hand over Kurra-dimri, [the daug]hter of Attar-qamu, the scribe, (to) Šamaš-kenu-uṣur, the son of Samaku, in lieu of the blood money. He will wash off the blood. If he does not hand over the woman, they will kill him on Samaku's grave. (9) Whoever breaks the contract with the other party, [shall pa]y 10 minas of silver. Aššur and Šamaš [are his prosecutors]. (Break) (r 1) Eponym year of [NN, ... of] Aššurbanipal, kin[g of Assyria]. (r 2) [Witness NN], chie[f ...]. (r 4) Witness Adallal, adjutant of [...]. (r 5) Witness Adad-baba'u, adjutant of the crown prince. (r 7) Witness Aššur-ila'i. (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
⸢ú*⸣-ma-a it-ta-<$at$>-ru-uṣ / [is]-sa-ḫi-iš MÍ.kur-a—di-im-ri / ⸢DUMU⸣.MÍ-su šá ma-tar—qa-mu / ⸢LÚ⸣.A.BA* mdUTU—GIN—PAB DUMU-šú / ⸢šá⸣ msa-ma-ku ku-um da-me i-dan / da-me i-ma-si šum-ma MÍ / la i-din ina UGU qa-bu-ri / ša msa-ma-ku i-du-ku-šu / man-nu šá ina UGU man-nu BAL-u-ni / 10 MA.NA ⸢KUG.UD SUM*-an*⸣ AN.ŠÁR dUTU / ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x] / lim-⸢mu⸣ [x x x x x x x x] / mAN.ŠÁR—DÙ—A ⸢MAN⸣…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335266.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335266). 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/P335266/.
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