SAA 06 082. Addati, Governess, Purchases a Woman (ADD 0223)

~700 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P335170

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 6

High confidence

(Beginning destroyed) (1) [Addati, governess, has contracted and bought her] for [x minas of silver]. (2) The money [is paid completely]. That woman is purch[ased and acquired]. Any revocation, lawsuit or litigation [is void]. (5) [Whoever], at any time in the futu[re], whether Abi-salam or [his] son[s], brothers or neph[ews], or his prefect, [...], or neighbour, seeks a lawsu[it or litigation] against Adda[ti, ...], and his (sic) successor (Rest destroyed)

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

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Transliteration

ina [ŠÀ x MA.NA KUG.UD ta-al-qi] / kas-pu [gam-mur ta-din] / MÍ šu-a-tú ⸢zar-pat⸣ [la-qi-at] / tu-a-ru de-e-nu DUG₄.DUG₄ [la-áš-šú] / ina ur-kiš ina im—ma-te-⸢ma⸣ / lu-u mAD—sa-lam lu-u DUMU-⸢MEŠ⸣-[šú] / lu-u ŠEŠ-MEŠ-šú lu-u DUMU-⸢MEŠ⸣—[ŠEŠ-MEŠ]-šú / lu-u LÚ.šak-an-šú lu-⸢u⸣ [x x x x] / lu-u qur-ub-šu ša ⸢de⸣-[e-nu DUG₄.DUG₄] / TAv* MÍ.ad-⸢da⸣-[ti x x x] / ⸢ù⸣ EGIR-šú [x x x x] / ⸢x⸣ [x x x x x x x x x x x]

Scholarly note

Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335170.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) ? — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335170). 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/P335170/.

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