SAA 06 087. The Governess of the Central City Harem Buys Slaves (ADD 0263)[via saao/saa06]


Obverse
oo	beginning broken away	(Beginning destroyed)
o 1'1'	⸢x x⸣ [x x x x (x) MÍ.šá]-⸢kin^-tú^ ša^* MURUB₄^*⸣—[URU]	(1) [the gov]erness of the cen[tral city] (harem) has contracted [and bou]ght them for 10 mi[nas of silver].
o 2'2'	ina ŠÀ 10 MA.[NA KUG.UD] ⸢il⸣-qi
o 3'3'	kas-pu gam-mur ta-din UN-MEŠ šu-a-tu	(3) The money is paid completely. Those people are purchased and acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is void.
o 4'4'	za-ar-pu laq-qi^*-ú tu-a-ru de-e-nu
o 5'5'	DUG₄.DUG₄ la-áš-šú man-nu ša ina ur-kiš	(5) Whoever in the future, at any time, lodges a complaint, whether Se'-gabbari or his sons, grandsons, brothers or nephews, and seeks a lawsuit or litigation against the governess, his (sic) sons and grandsons,
o 6'6'	ina ma-te-e-ma i-zaq-qu-pan-ni
o 7'7'	lu-u ^mse-eʾ—gab-ba-ri lu-u DUMU-MEŠ-šú
o 8'8'	lu-u ⸢DUMU⸣—DUMU-MEŠ-šú lu-u ŠEŠ-MEŠ-šú lu-u DUMU-MEŠ—ŠEŠ-MEŠ-šú
o 9'9'	ša TA^v^* MÍ.šá-kín-tú DUMU-MEŠ-šú DUMU—DUMU-MEŠ-šú
o 10'10'	de-⸢e⸣-nu DUG₄.DUG₄ ub-ta-ʾu-u-ni
Reverse
r 1r 1	10 ⸢MA⸣.NA KUG.UD LUḪ-u 01 MA.NA KUG.GI sak-ru	(r 1) shall place 10 minas of refined silver and one mina of pure gold in the lap of Ištar residing in Nineveh, shall tie two white horses to the feet of Aššur, shall bring four harbakannu horses to the feet of Nergal, and shall return the money tenfold to its owners. He shall contest in his lawsuit and not succeed.
r 22	ina bur-ki ^dIŠ.TAR a-ši-bat URU.NINA i-šak-kan
r 33	02 ANŠE.KUR.RA-MEŠ BABBAR-MEŠ ina^* GÌR.2 aš-šur i-rak-kas
r 44	04 ANŠE.ḫar-ba-kan-ni ina KI.TA ^dŠEŠ.GAL ú-še-rab
r 55	kas-pu a-na 10-MEŠ-te a-na EN-MEŠ-šú GUR-ra
r 66	ina de-ni-šú DUG₄.DUG₄-ma la i-laq-qi
r 77	IGI ^m^dPA—EN—PAB LÚ^v.ḫa-za-nu	(r 7) Witness Nabû-belu-uṣur, mayor.
r 88	IGI ^m^dPA—AM—DINGIR-⸢MEŠ⸣	(r 8) Witness Nabû-rim-ilani.
r 99	⸢IGI⸣ ^mIM—⸢aš^-šur^⸣	(r 9) Witness Šar-Aššur.
r 1010	[IGI] ^m^dPA—MU—[x x]	(r 10) Witness Nabû-šumu-[...].
r 1111	[IGI] ^m⸢EN^*⸣—[x x x]	(r 11) Witness Bel-[...].
	rest broken away	(Rest destroyed)

Adapted from Theodore Kwasman and Simo Parpola , Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part I: Tiglath-Pileser III through Esarhaddon (State Archives of Assyria, 6), 1991. 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/P335210/.