Position in chronology
SAA 06 250. Abi-rahi, Sister of the Governess, Buys Three Slaves (ADD 0245)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) Seal of Me[nahem], owner of the wo[me]n being sold. (cylinder seal impression) (3) Yaqar-ahhe, her daughter, (and) the woman Abi-yahya, a total of 3 persons belonging to Menahem — (7) Abi-rahî, sister of the governess, has contracted and bought them for two minas of silver by the mina of Carchemish. (11) The money is completely paid. The people in question are acquired and purchased. Any revocation, lawsuit or litigation is void. (r 2) Whoever breaks the contract, shall place 10 minas (of silver) and one mina of gold in the lap of Ištar residing in Nineveh, and shall return the money…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
⸢NA₄⸣.KIŠIB mmi-[na-ḫi-mi] / ⸢EN MÍ⸣-MEŠ! ⸢SUM⸣-ni / MÍ.ia-qar—PAB-MEŠ DUMU.⸢MÍ-sa⸣ / MÍ.a-bi—ia-aḫ-ia / PAB 03 ZI-MEŠ / ša mmi-na-ḫi-mi / ú-piš-ma MÍ.AD—ra-ḫi-i / NIN-sa ša MÍ.šá-kín-te / ina ŠÀ 02 MA.NA KUG.UD / ina 01 MA.NA ša URU.gar-ga-mis / il-qí kas-pu gam-mur / ta-din UN-MEŠ šu-a-tú / zar-pu laq-qi-u / tu-a-ru / de-e-nu da-ba-bu / la-a-šú man-nu šá GIL-u-ni / 10 MA.NA 01 MA.NA KUG.GI /…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335192.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335192). 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/P335192/.
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