Position in chronology
SAA 14 435. Inurta-šarru-uṣur Buys a Woman (*612) (TIM 11 03)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 14(1) Seal of Hallabeše, copper smith, son of Illaya, owner of the woman being sold. (seal impressions) (4) Puṭu-šis[i ...], maid of Hallabeše — (6) Inurta-šarru-uṣur, courtier, has co[nt]racted and bought for 50 shekels of silver from Hallabeše. (9) The money is paid completely. That maid is purchased and acquired. Any revocation, [law]suit, or litigation is void. (13) [Whoever] in the future, at any time, [lodges a comp]laint and breaks the contract, [whether] Hallabeše [or] his [son]s (or) hi[s] grandsons, and seeks a [la]wsuit or litigation [aga]inst Inurta-šarru-uṣur and his sons and his…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 14 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB mḫa-la-bé-e-si / LÚ.SIMUG—URUDU A mil-la-a.a / EN MÍ SUM-a-ni / MÍ.pu-u-ṭu—ši?-i-⸢si⸣ [x x] / GÉME-šú ša mḫa-la-bé-e-še / ⸢ú-piš⸣-ma mdMAŠ—MAN—PAB DUMU—É.GAL / ina ŠÀ 50 GÍN-MEŠ KUG.UD / TAv IGI mḫa-la-bé-e-še / TI-qí kas-pu gam-mur / ⸢ta⸣-ad-din GÉME šú-a-tú / ⸢za-ar⸣-pat laq-qi-at tú-a-ru / [de-e]-nu DUG₄.DUG₄ la-áš-šú / [man-nu šá] ina ur-kiš ina mat-e-ma / [i-za]-⸢qup⸣-pa-a-ni…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P224946.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Raija Mattila, Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part II: Assurbanipal Through Sin-šarru-iškun (State Archives of Assyria, 14), 2002. Lemmatised by Melanie Groß, 2010–2011, as part of the FWF-funded research project "Royal Institutional Households in First Millennium BC Mesopotamia" (S 10802-G18) directed by Heather D. Baker at the University of Vienna. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P224946/..
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/P224946/.
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