SAA 14 039. Kakkullanu Buys a Man in Exchange for a Woman (*625-II-20) (ADD 0318)[via saao/saa14]
Obverse | ||
o 1o 1 | (1) Seal of Nabû-ahu-uṣur, seal of Ahuni, in all 2 sons, sons of Nargî, | |
o 22 | ||
o 33 | (3) Seal of Ahi-nuri, son of Se-ili, | |
o 44 | (4) in all 3 men, owners of the man given in exchange for the woman. | |
o 55 | ||
stamp seal impressions | ||
o 66 | (6) Issar-dur-qalli, servant of these men — | |
o 77 | ||
o 88 | (8) Kakkullanu, cohort commander, has contracted, purchased and acquired him as an exchange for Abi-liha, his maid, from these men. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is void. | |
o 99 | ||
o 1010 | ||
o 1111 | ||
o 1212 | ||
o 1313 | ||
o 1414 | (14) Whoever in the future, at any time, lodges a complaint and breaks the contract, whether Nabû-ahu-uṣur, whether Ahuni, whether Ahi-nuri, or their sons or their grandsons or their brothers or their nephews or any relative of theirs, and seeks a lawsuit against Kakkullanu, his sons (and) his grandsons, | |
o 1515 | ||
o 1616 | ||
o 1717 | ||
o 1818 | ||
Reverse | ||
r 1r 1 | ||
r 22 | ||
r 33 | ||
r 44 | (r 4) Aššur, Šamaš, Bel, Nabû shall be his prosecutor. He shall give 10 minas of silver. | |
r 55 | ||
r 66 | (r 6) Witness Aššur-killanni, cohort commander. | |
r 77 | (r 7) Witness La-qepu, ditto ditto. | |
r 88 | (r 8) Witness Balasî, ditto ditto. | |
r 99 | (r 9) Witness Zizî, deputy of ditto. | |
r 1010 | (r 10) Witness Addî, merchant. | |
r 1111 | (r 11) Witness Hiriṣayu, porter of the Kidmuri temple. | |
r 1212 | (r 12) Witness Ṣalmuti, merchant. | |
r 1313 | (r 13) Witness Šamaš-iqbi, dayyālu. | |
r 1414 | (r 14) Witness Šumayu, scribe. | |
r 1515 | (r 15) Witness Il-gabbari, ša šēpi guard. | |
r 1616 | (r 16) Witness Sin-šarru-uṣur, royal bodyguard. | |
(blank) | ||
r 1717 | (r 17) Month Iyyar (II), 20th day, eponym year of Sin-šarru-uṣur, palace scribe. | |
r 1818 | ||
Edge | ||
e.e. | Aramaic caption |
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/P335263/.