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 | Tell Meskene
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. 8–10 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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