SAA 06 048. Šumma-ilani Buys a Maid (680) (ADD 0212)

~700 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P335159

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 6

High confidence

(1) [Sea]l of Nabû-ze[ru-iddina, owner of the wom]an being sol[d]. (stamp seal impressions) (3) Šamê-tabani, maid of Nabû-[ze]ru-iddina — (5) [Šumma]-ilani, has contracted and bought her [for x minas of silver]. (7) [The money is paid completely]. That woman is purc[hased] and acquired. Any revocation, law[suit], or litigation is vo[id]. (11) [Who]ever in the fut[ure, at] any time, lodges a compla[int] and seeks a lawsuit or litigation [aga]inst Šumma-ilani, his sons, grand[sons, broth]ers and neph[ews, (r 1) (whoever) seeks [a law]suit or litigation, shall return [the mon]ey tenfold to its…

State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).

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Transliteration

[NA₄].⸢KIŠIB⸣ mdPA—⸢NUMUN*⸣—[AŠ] / [EN] ⸢MÍ⸣ ta-da-⸢a*⸣-[ni] / MÍ.AN-e—ta-⸢ba⸣-ni ⸢GÉME⸣-[šú] / ša mdPA—⸢NUMUN⸣—AŠ / ú-piš-⸢ma⸣ [mšúm]-⸢ma⸣—DINGIR-⸢MEŠ⸣ / [ina ŠÀ x MA.NA KUG.UD] / ⸢il*⸣-qi [kas-pu gam-mur ta-din] / MÍ šu-a-te za-⸢ri*⸣-[ip] / laq-qi* tu-a-⸢ru de⸣-[e-nu] / DUG₄.DUG₄ la-áš-[šu] / [man]-nu ša ina ur-⸢kiš⸣ / [ina] ma-te-ma i-za-⸢qu⸣-pa-a-[ni] / ⸢de⸣-e-nu DUG₄.⸢DUG₄⸣ / ⸢TAv*⸣…

Scholarly note

Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335159.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335159). 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/P335159/.

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