Position in chronology
SAA 14 442. Puti-Athiš Buys a Boy As a Son for Himself (*634) (TIM 11 15)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Seal of Abdi-Kurra, [co]ok. (2) [ow]ner of the son of being sold. (seal impression) (3) Ahu-iddina, son of his daughter from her temple-prostitution, of 3 spans — (5) Puṭi-athiš has [co]ntracted and [bough]t him [f]or 10 shekels of [silver to be] his son. (8) The mone[y is paid completely]. (Break) (11) [...]...[...] (r 1) Whoever in the [future, at any tim]e, lod[ges a complaint and break]s the contract, whether Abdi-Ku[rr]a [o]r his sons (or) his grandsons, and seeks a lawsuit or li[tiga]tion against Puṭi-athiš, and his sons, (r 8) shall give 10 minas of silver. (r 9) Even though the…
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/P224957/
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Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB mab-di—kur-ra ⸢LÚ.MU?⸣ / ⸢EN⸣ DUMU SUM-ni / mPAB—SUM-na DUMU DUMU.MÍ-šú / ⸢ša⸣ ḫa-rim-te-šá 03 ru-ṭu / [ú]-piš-ma mpu-ṭi—at-ḫi-iš / ⸢ina⸣ ŠÀ 10 GÍN-MEŠ [KUG.UD] / [a-na] ⸢DUMU⸣-u-te-[šú] / [il]-⸢qi⸣ kas-⸢pu⸣ [gam-mur] / [x x x]+⸢x⸣ tu? [x x x] / [x x x] man-nu šá ina [ur-kiš] / [ina ma-te]-⸢ma⸣ i-za-⸢qu⸣-[pa-an-ni] / [i-GIL-u]-ni lu-u mab-di—⸢kur-ra⸣ / ⸢lu⸣-u DUMU-MEŠ-šú…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P224957.
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/P224957/..
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/P224957/.
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