SAA 06 286. Adad-Kapara purchases a Maid (670-I) (ADD 0499+)

~700 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P335437

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 6

High confidence

(1) Seal of Ubru-[...], city lord of Šadikanni, owner [of the woman being sold]. (cylinder seal impression) (3) Ramâ-[Yâ, the maid] of Ubru-[...] — (5) [Adad-kapara] has contracted and [bought her] for 50 [shekels of silver]. (7) The money is [paid] comple[tely]. That maid [is purchased and acquired]. (Break) (r 1) Witness Lip[ušu, ...]. (r 2) Witness Nabû-[......]. (r 3) Witness Ubru-[......]. (r 4) Witness [......]. (r 5) Witness Yabur[..., ...]. (r 6) Witness Nabû-lešir, [...]. (r 7) Witness Gimil[lu, ...]. (r 8) Witness Urda-Nabû, [...]. (r 9) Witness Hanan, [...]. (r 10) Witness Nabû-šumu-iddina, son of Im[...]. (r 11) Month Nisan (I), eponym year of (the official) after Kanunayu. (e. 1) [Concerning Ramâ]-Yâ, who was sold to Adad-kapara.

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

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Transliteration

NA₄.KIŠIB mSUḪUŠ—d[x x x] / EN—URU URU.šá-di-kan-ni EN [MÍ SUM-ni] / MÍ.ra-ma-a—[ia-a GÉME-šú] / šá mSUḪUŠ—[dx x x x x] / ú-piš-⸢ma⸣ [m10—ka-pa-ra] / ina ŠÀ-bi ⸢50*⸣ [GÍN-MEŠ KUG.UD TI] / kas-pu ga-[mur ta-din] / ⸢GÉME⸣ šu-a-[te za-ár-pat] / [x x x] x [x x x x x x] / ⸢IGI* m*li*-pu*⸣-[šu? x x x x] / IGI mdPA—[x x x x x] / IGI mSUḪUŠ—[x x x x x] / IGI [mx x] ⸢x⸣ [x x x] / IGI mia-bur*-⸢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 P335437.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335437). 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/P335437/.

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