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SAA 14 472. Priest of Bel Buys a Woman (ADD 0216)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) [(NN), prie]st of Bel (has contracted and) bought her from Sin-belu-uṣur for one mina of silver. (4) The money is paid completely. That woman is purchased and acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is vo[id]. (7) (Whoever) breaks the contract shall give one mina of silver and one mina of go[ld] to [Ištar] of Nine[veh], and shall retu[rn] the money ten[fold to its owner]. He shall contest in his lawsuit and n[ot succeed]. (r 4) Witness Adad-šumu-uṣur, servant of the chief eunuch. (r 6) Witness Hana-Se', [tan]ner of coloured leather. (Break) (e. 1) 1/2 mina of co[pper for his fingernail]. (e. 2) [...]
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/P335163/
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Transliteration
[LÚv].⸢SANGA* ša⸣ d⸢EN⸣ / TAv IGI m30—EN—PAB / ina ŠÀ-bi 01 MA.NA KUG.UD / i-⸢si-qi⸣ :* kas-pu ga-mur ta-din-ni / MÍ šu-a-tú za-rip la-qi o* / tu-a-ru DI.KUD o* DUG₄.DUG₄ la-⸢áš⸣-[šú] / ša BAL-kàt-tu-u-ni / o* 01 MA.NA KUG.UD 01* MA*.NA* KUG*.⸢GI*⸣ / ina ⸢d*⸣[15] ša URU.ni-nu-[a] / SUM-an / kas-pu ina 10-⸢MEŠ⸣-[te ina EN-šú] / ú-ta-⸢a-ra⸣ / ina DI.KUD DUG₄.DUG₄ ⸢la⸣ [TI] / IGI mdIM—MU—PAB / ARAD…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Raija Mattila (SAA 14, 2002). ORACC text P335163.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335163). 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/P335163/.
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