Position in chronology
SAA 06 091. A Harem Woman Buys 27 Persons With their Property (681-VI-27) (ADD 0059)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) Seal of Milkiya, governor of Talmusu, owner of the field, houses, gardens and people being sold. (blank seal space) (4) Ehi-yâ, his wife, three sons and two daughters; Pilaqqâ, his wife and two sons; Ṭab-ruhiti, his wife and son; Nabtê, his wife, mother and brother; Dullaya-qanun, his wife, mother, son and brother; Uriah, his wife, his mother and his brother; in all 27 persons plus their fields, houses, gardens, cattle, sheep and kinsmen in the town of Dadi-ualla in the province of Talmusu — (11) the palace concubine has contracted them; they are placed as a pledge in lieu of 20 minas of…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB mmil-ki-ia LÚ.EN.NAM / šá URU.tal-mu-si EN A.ŠÀ-MEŠ É-MEŠ / GIŠ.SAR-MEŠ UN-MEŠ ta-da-ni / me-ḫi—ia-a MÍ-šú 03 DUMU-MEŠ-šú 02 DUMU.MÍ-MEŠ-šú / mGIŠ.BAL-a MÍ-šú 02 DUMU-MEŠ-šú mDÙG.GA—ru-ḫi-ti MÍ-šú / DUMU-šú mnab-te-e MÍ-šú AMA-šú PAB-šú mdul*-la-a.a-qa-nun / MÍ-šú AMA-šú DUMU-šú PAB-šú mú-ri—ia-a MÍ-šú AMA-šú / PAB-šú PAB 27 ZI-MEŠ a-di A.ŠÀ-MEŠ-šú-nu a-di É-MEŠ-šú-nu / a-di…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335011.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335011). 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/P335011/.
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