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SAA 14 242. Purchase of a Woman (ADD 0224)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(1) [Fingernail of NN, owner of the woman being so]ld. (fingernail impressions) (3) [...]su, the maid of [...]a — (5) [NN] has contracted and [bought] her from [...] for 30 shekels of silver. (7) [The money is paid] completely. [T]ha[t woman (is purchased and acquired)]. (Break) (r 1) [Witness ...], son of Sin-ašared. (r 2) [Witness ...]me, her servant. (r 3) [Witness ...]-kenu-uṣur. (r 4) [Witness ..., ... of the] vizier. (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[NA₄.KIŠIB mx x x x x] / [EN MÍ ta-da]-ni / [MÍ.x x x]-x-su GÉME / [ša mx x x x]-⸢a⸣ ú-piš-ma / [mx x x x]-áš? TAv pa-an / [mx x x x] ina ŠÀ 30 GÍN KUG.UD / [il-qi kas]-⸢pu⸣ ga-mur / [ta-din MÍ] ⸢šu⸣-a-[te] / [IGI mx x x x x] A m⸢30—MAŠ⸣ / [IGI mx x x x]-me ARAD-šá / [IGI mx x x]—GIN—PAB / [IGI mx x x x]+⸢x SUKKAL⸣
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335171.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) ? — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335171). 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/P335171/.
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