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SAA 06 045. Šumma-ilani Buys a Maid (682) (ADD 0222)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [Sea]l of Bel-[ibni], owner of the woman being sol[d]. (stamp seal impressions) (3) Uquputu, maid of Bel-ibni — (5) Šumma-ilani has contracted and bought her for one mina of silver (by the mina) of Carchemish. (7) The money [is paid] completely. That [wom]an [is purchased and acquired]. (Break) (r 1) Witness Ha[...]. (r 2) Witness Takku[lu]. (r 3) Witness Nabû-kuṣuranni. (r 4) Witness Nabû-duru-uṣur, scribe. (r 5) Month [...], 25th day, eponym year of Nabû-šarru-uṣur, governor of Marqasa.
Source: Kwasman, T. & Parpola, S. 1991. Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part I: Tiglath-Pileser III through Esarhaddon. SAA 6. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa06/P335169/
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Transliteration
[NA₄].⸢KIŠIB mEN—DÙ*⸣ / EN MÍ SUM-[ni] / MÍ.ú-qu-pu-tú GÉME-⸢šú⸣ / ša mEN—DÙ* ú-piš-ma / mšum-⸢ma⸣—DINGIR-MEŠ-ni / ina ŠÀ 01 MA.NA KUG.UD ša gar-⸢gar⸣-mis / il-qi kas-pu gam-mur / [ta-din] ⸢MÍ⸣ šu-a-⸢te⸣ / IGI ⸢mḫa*-x⸣+[x x x] / IGI mtak-ku-[lu] / IGI mdPA—KÀD-an-⸢ni*⸣ / IGI mdPA—⸢BÀD⸣—PAB / LÚ*.A*.BA* ⸢ITI⸣.[x] UD 25-KAM? / lim-mu m⸢dPA⸣—MAN—PAB / GAR.KUR URU.mar-ḫa*-si
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335169.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P335169). source
Translation excerpted from Kwasman, T. & Parpola, S. 1991. Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part I: Tiglath-Pileser III through Esarhaddon. SAA 6. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa06/P335169/.
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