Position in chronology
SAA 14 218. Šar-Nergal-allak Buys a Woman as a Wife (ADD 0509)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) [Šar-Nergal-allak] has co[ntracted (and bought)] for [......] as a wife. (4) The money is [paid] completely. (5) Whoever in the future, at any time, whether these men or any relative of theirs or their cohort commander, breaks the contract and seeks a lawsuit or litigation against Šar-Nergal-allak, (r 4) shall pay 2 minas of silver. (r 5) Witness Sin-na'id, [...]. (r 6) Witness Abbu[..., ...]. (r 7) Witness Ila'i-[..., ...]. (r 8) Witness Adad-[..., ...]. (Rest destroyed)
Source: 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/P335447/
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Transliteration
ú-[piš-ma mIM—U.GUR—DU-lak] / ina ŠÀ-bi [x x x x x x] / a-na MÍ-⸢ú⸣-[ti x x x x x] / kas-pu gam-mur [ta-din] / ⸢man-nu ša⸣ ina ur-kiš / ina ma-ti-ma GIL-u-ni / lu-u LÚv-MEŠ an-nu-te / lu-u mám-ma-nu-šú-nu / lu-u LÚv.GAL—⸢ki-ṣir⸣-šú-nu / TAv IGI* mIM—U.GUR—DU-⸢lak?⸣ / de-e-⸢nu⸣ DUG₄.DUG₄ ub-ta-u-ni / 02 MA.NA KUG.UD i-dan / IGI md30—I [x x x] / IGI mab-bu-⸢x⸣+[x x x x] / IGI mDINGIR-a.⸢a*⸣—[x x x x] / IGI m⸢10⸣-[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 P335447.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) ? — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335447). 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/P335447/.
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