Genre
Legal
School/Tradition
Syro-Hittite
Scribe
Text Information
Language
Akkadian
Scribe
Typology
Conveyance
Period
None - None
Inventory No.
Context
illegally dug
Dimensions
57 - 74 - 22
Editions
Author Resource Page(s) Type
Beckman 1996 Beckman, G. (1996). Texts from the Vicinity of Emar in the Collection of Jonathan Rosen. Handcopy
Beckman 1996 Beckman, G. (1996). Texts from the Vicinity of Emar in the Collection of Jonathan Rosen. 86 Edition
Provenience Map
Emar Middle Euphrates
Handcopy by Gary Beckman
Texts from the Vicinity of Emar in the Collection of Jonathan Rosen
— Handcopy by Gary Beckman

ll. 1–5 Bulla, son of Ibri-adali, and his wife Astar-ummi have sold their daughter Baʾala-kimī to the wife of Taʾe, son of Abī-ikki, for 30 (shekels) of silver.
Reference: Beckman 1996 - Texts from the Vicinity of Emar in the Collection of Jonathan Rosen (p. 86)

ll. 6–7 Now her father Bulla has returned to her 15 shekels (of silver).
Reference: Beckman 1996 - Texts from the Vicinity of Emar in the Collection of Jonathan Rosen (p. 86)

ll. 9–11 If in the future someone with a legal claim on this girl should turn up, this tablet will prevail over him.

General notes

Secondary Literature

  • Review Tsukimoto, A. (1998). review of BECKMAN, G., Texts from the Vicinity of Emar in the Collection of Jonathan Rosen, Padova (1996). Welt des orients, 29, 184–190. — 189
  • Review Huehnergard, J. (2001). review of BECKMAN, G., Texts from the Vicinity of Emar in the Collection of Jonathan Rosen, Padova (1996). Orientalia. Nuova Serie, 70, 133–136. — 136
  • Study Justel, J. J. (2008). La formule ana muḫḫiši uttēr comme expression de la ‘dot indirecte’ à Emar. Nouvelles assyriologiques brèves et utilitaires, 2008(67).
  • Study Justel, J. J. (2008). La posición jurídica de la mujer en Siria durante el Bronce Final. Estudio de las estrategias familiares y de la mujer como sujeto y objeto de derecho. — 216
  • Study Justel, J. J. (2014). Mujeres y derecho en el Próximo Oriente Antiguo. La presencia de mujeres en los textos jurídicos cuneiformes del segundo y primer milenios a. C.. — 223
  • Study Hillmann, R. (2016). Brautpreis und Mitgift (Vol. 18). Mohr Siebeck. — 89-90

Commentary

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