SAA 14 125. Šamaš-kenu-uṣur Receives a Woman in Lieu of Blood Money (ADD 0321)[via saao/saa14]
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o 1'1' | (1) Now they have come to an agreement. He shall hand over Kurra-dimri, [the daug]hter of Attar-qamu, the scribe, (to) Šamaš-kenu-uṣur, the son of Samaku, in lieu of the blood money. He will wash off the blood. If he does not hand over the woman, they will kill him on Samaku's grave. | |
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o 9'9' | (9) Whoever breaks the contract with the other party, [shall pa]y 10 minas of silver. Aššur and Šamaš [are his prosecutors]. | |
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o 11'11' | ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x] | |
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r 1'1' | lim-⸢mu⸣ [x x x x x x x x] | (r 1) Eponym year of [NN, ... of] Aššurbanipal, kin[g of Assyria]. |
r 2'2' | mAN.ŠÁR—DÙ—A ⸢MAN⸣ [KUR—aš-šur IGI mx x x] | (r 2) [Witness NN], chie[f ...]. |
r 3'3' | o* LÚ.⸢GAL⸣—[x x x x] | |
r 4'4' | IGI ma-da-lal LÚ.DUMU—ŠU.2 šá* [x x x] | (r 4) Witness Adallal, adjutant of [...]. |
r 5'5' | (r 5) Witness Adad-baba'u, adjutant of the crown prince. | |
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r 7'7' | (r 7) Witness Aššur-ila'i. | |
r 8'8' | [x x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
r 9'9' | [x x x x x x x x x x]-ḫu* | |
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Adapted from Raija Mattila, Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part II: Assurbanipal Through Sin-šarru-iškun (State Archives of Assyria, 14), 2002. Lemmatised by Melanie Groß, 2010–2011, as part of the FWF-funded research project "Royal Institutional Households in First Millennium BC Mesopotamia" (S 10802-G18) directed by Heather D. Baker at the University of Vienna. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P335266/.