SAA 06 049. Duplicate of the Preceding Text (ADD 0226)

~700 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P335173

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 6

High confidence

(Beginning destroyed) (1) Šamê-tab[ani, maid] of Nabû-zeru-iddina — (3) Šumma-ilani has con[tracted and] bought her fo[r x minas] of silver. (4) The mon[ey is] paid [completely]. Tha[t] woman [is purchased and ac]quired. Any rev[ocation, lawsuit, or lit]igation is v[oid]. (7) [Whoever in the f]uture, at [any time, whether Nabû-zeru-iddina or] (Rest destroyed)

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

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Transliteration

⸢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 TI-qí kas-[pu gam-mur] / ⸢ta⸣-din MÍ šú-a-⸢te⸣ [za-ar-pat] / ⸢la⸣-qi-at ⸢tú⸣-[a-ru de-e-nu] / ⸢DUG₄⸣.DUG₄ ⸢la⸣-[áš-šú man-nu ša] / [ina] ⸢ur⸣-kiš ina [ma-te-ma] / [lu]-⸢u⸣ [mdPA—NUMUN—AŠ lu-u]

Scholarly note

Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335173.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Sippar-Yahrurum (mod. Tell Abu Habbah) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335173). 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/P335173/.

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