Position in chronology
SAA 14 162. Šumma-ilani Buys a Woman (*622-V-20) (ADD 0210)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(1) Seal of Rem[anni-ilu], priest of Be[lanu], [owner] of the woman [being sold]. (cylinder seal impression) (4) Nanaya-da[...], daughter of Suqaya, maid of Remanni-ilu — (7) Šumma-ilani, treasurer, son of Kakkullanu, has contracted and [bou]ght her for [x] minas of silver from Remanni-ilu, (10) The money is paid completely. (That) [wo]man is purchased and acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is void. (13) Whoever in the future, at any time, [lodges a complaint] and breaks the contract, whether Remanni-[ilu] or his sons or [his] brothers, and seeks a lawsuit or litigation against…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
⸢NA₄⸣.KIŠIB mrém-[a-ni—DINGIR] / [LÚ].SANGA šá d.⸢EN?⸣-[a-nu] / [EN] MÍ [SUM-ni] / [MÍ].⸢d⸣na-na-a.a—da-[x x] / ⸢A⸣.MÍ msu-qa-a.a ⸢GÉME*⸣-[šú*] / ša mrém-a-ni—DINGIR ú-piš-[ma] / m⸢BE?⸣—DINGIR-MEŠ IGI*.DUB? ⸢DUMU*⸣ / m⸢ka*-ku*⸣-la-ni ina ŠÀ-bi / [x] MA.NA KUG.UD TAv IGI mrém-a-ni—DINGIR / [il]-qi kas-pu gam-mur ta-din / ⸢MÍ⸣ za-ár-pat laq-qi-[at] / tu-a-ru de-nu DUG₄.DUG₄ / la-áš-šú man-nu šá ina…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335157.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335157). 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/P335157/.
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