Position in chronology
SAA 14 165. [...]ayu Buys a Woman and a Child (*622) (ADD 0221)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(Beginning destroyed) (stamp seal impressions) (1) Sams[i-...], his maid, a suckling child [...] — (3) [...]ayu has contracted and bought for [x minas] of silver. (5) The money is paid completely. That woman and child are purchased and ac[qui]red. (Break) (r 1) [Whoever] seeks a lawsuit or litigation, shall return the silver tenfold to [its] owners. (r 4) Wi[tness NN], [...]. (r 5) Wi[tness NN]. (r 6) Witness [...]-šarru-ibni. (r 7) Witness [...]anu, [...] (Break) (e. 1) [Witness ...]me. Witness Ṣalaya. M[onth ..., xth day, eponym year of] Dadî, treasurer. Witness [...].
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
MÍ.sam*-⸢si*⸣—[x x] GÉME*-šú* / DUMU ⸢GA*⸣ [x (x) x]-MEŠ / ú-piš-ma m[x (x) x]+⸢x⸣-a.a / ina ŠÀ-⸢bi⸣ [x MA.NA] ⸢KUG⸣.UD-MEŠ / il-qi ⸢kas-pu ga-mur⸣ / ta-din ⸢MÍ DUMU⸣ [šu]-a-te / za-ár-pu ⸢laq⸣-[qi*]-iu*-u* / [man-nu ša] ⸢de*⸣-e*-nu ⸢DUG₄*.DUG₄*⸣ [o] / ⸢ub*-ta*-u*-ni*⸣ KUG*.UD* [a]-⸢na*⸣ / 10*-MEŠ*-⸢te* a*-na*⸣ EN-MEŠ-[šú] GUR / ⸢IGI*⸣ [m]⸢x x x⸣ x ⸢x⸣ x x / ⸢IGI*⸣ m*⸢d*⸣[x]+⸢x⸣+[x] x x x /…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335168.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335168). 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/P335168/.
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