BT 125 [sales document (person)][via atae/imgurenlil]
| Obverse | ||
| o 1o 1 | (1) Instead of their seals, they impressed their fingernails. Fingernail of Aššur-ēṭiranni. Fingernail of Šarru-ēmuranni. Total: two men, the owners of the woman being sold. | |
| o 22 | ||
| fingernail impressions | ||
| o 33 | ||
| o 44 | ||
| o 55 | ||
| o 66 | (6) Mullissu-ummī, their female slave – Mamu-iqbi has contracted and acquired (her) for one mina of silver. The money is paid completely. The woman is purchased and acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is void. Whoever in the future, at any time, lodges a complaint – be it these men, be it their sons, be it their grandsons, be it their ilku-duty superior, be it the prefect of their city, be it any relative of theirs – and seeks a lawsuit or litigation against Mamu-iqbi and his brothers and his sons, he shall give five minas of silver and one mina of gold to Ištar who resides in Nineveh and return the money tenfold to its owners. He will litigate in his non-lawsuit, but he will not succeed. | |
| o 77 | ||
| o 88 | ||
| o 99 | ||
| o 1010 | ||
| o 1111 | ||
| o 1212 | ||
| o 1313 | ||
| o 1414 | ||
| o 1515 | ||
| o 1616 | ||
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| Reverse | ||
| r 1r 1 | ||
| r 22 | ||
| r 33 | ||
| r 44 | ||
| r 55 | ||
| r 66 | ||
| r 77 | ||
| r 88 | ||
| r 99 | (r 9) Witness: Nārānu, Ninevite. Witness: Rībāti, Ninevite. Witness: Nabû-ahu-uṣur, ditto. Witness: BAL-šum-rība. Witess: Bābilāya. Witness: Ṭāb-šār-Nabû. Witness: Ezbu. Witness: Marduk-ibni. Witness: Nergal-šarru-uṣur. Witness: Witness: Kalbu. Month Addaru (XII), eponym year of Zazāya. Witness: Nabû-šumu-lešir, scribe, holder of the tablet. | |
| r 1010 | ||
| r 1111 | IGI mdPA-PAB-PAB :. | |
| r 1212 | ||
| r 1313 | ||
| r 1414 | ||
| r 1515 | ||
| r 1616 | ||
| r 1717 | ||
| Left | ||
| l.e. 1l.e. 1 | ||
| l.e. 22 | ||
| l.e. 33 |
Adapted from Barbara Parker, “Tablets from the Temple of Mamu at Balawat,” Iraq 25 (1963): 86–103, by Jamie Novotny and Poppy Tushingham (2021) for the Munich Open-access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative (MOCCI), which is funded by LMU Munich and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Historisches Seminar - Abteilung Alte Geschichte of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. The text was lemmatized by Jamie Novotny. The online edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/atae/P522841/.