Position in chronology
SAA 14 161. Nihti-Eša-rau Buys a Woman as a Wife for His Son (*623-VI-1) (ADD 0307)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(1) Seal of Nabû-reh[tu-uṣur], son of Amu-rṭeš[e], the Hasaean, employee of Ur[du-Issar], from Fuller Town. (5) Seal of Kanunayu, his son. (6) Seal of Silim-Adad, ditto, owner(s) of their daughter being sold. (stamp seal impressions) (8) Mullissu-haṣina, daughter of Nabû-rehtu-uṣur — (10) Nihtiešarau has contracted and bought her for 18 shekels of silver to Ṣihâ her son as a wife. (14) She is the wife of Ṣihâ. (15) The [m]oney is paid completely. (16) [Who]ever in the future, at any time, lodges a complaint and breaks the contract, whether Nabû-rehtu-uṣur or his sons (or) his grandsons or his…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Spotted an error? Suggest a correction — confirmed corrections feed the engine's knowledge base.
Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB mdPA—re-eḫ-[tú—PAB] / DUMU ma-mur-ṭi-⸢še⸣ / LÚv.ḫa-sa-a.a ša ŠU.2 m⸢ARAD⸣—[15] / ša ŠÀ URU.LÚv.TÚG.UD-MEŠ / NA₄.KIŠIB mITI.AB-a.a DUMU-šú / NA₄.KIŠIB msi-lim—dIM :* / EN DUMU.MÍ-šú-nu SUM-ni / MÍ.dNIN.LÍL—ḫa-ṣi-na / DUMU.MÍ-su ša mdPA—KÀD—PAB / tu-piš-ma MÍ.ni-iḫ-ti-e-šá-ra-u / ina ŠÀ-bi 18 GÍN-MEŠ KUG.UD / a-na mṣi—ḫa-a DUMU-šá / a-na MÍ-ú-ti-šú tal-qi / MÍ-šú šá mṣi—ḫa-a ši-i /…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335252.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335252). 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/P335252/.
Related tablets
Related sources
An early example of administrative writing from Uruk. Its fragmentary numerical entries and commodity signs document record-keeping during the formative period of writing.
An early surviving historical monument that joins named rulers, a territorial dispute and religious oaths. It shows how a city-state turned victory into a lasting public claim, without establishing that this was the first recorded conflict.
Among the oldest surviving written law collections. It provides an early witness to royal justice and specified compensation, rather than a starting date for law itself.