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ACP 01

  • CDLI P522850
  • Collection no.: MRAH O.3660
  • Primary publication(s): ACP 01

Provenance

  • Provenience: unknown (Ma'allanate)
  • Archive: 099 - Miscellaneous

Object Details

  • Object type: tablet
  • Material: clay
  • Script: Neo-Assyrian
  • Sealed/Marked: yes
  • Seal/Mark Type: fingernail
  • Number of Fingernail markings: 3
  • Seal Owner(s): Ateqanni

Text Details

  • Language: Akkadian (Neo-Assyrian)
  • Genre: Legal Transaction
  • Subgenre: sales document (person)
  • Seller: Ateqanni
  • Buyer: Handî
  • Creditor:

Date

  • Period: Neo-Assyrian
  • Reign: Sennacherib (704–681 BC)
  • Dated: yes, but date partially preserved
  • Date: 700-[...]-[...] ([... ...]th, epony[my of] Mitūnu, governor of Isana)

ACP 01 [sales document (person)][via atae/mallanate]

Obverse
o 1o 1

ṣu-pur ma-te-qa-an-ni

(o 1) Fingernail of Ateqanni, the owner of the people being sold.

o 22

EN UN-MEŠ SUM-ni


three nailmarks

o 33

.sa-ʾi-la-a 02 DUMU.-MEŠ-šá

(o 3) Regarding Saʾīlu and her two daughters (one breast feeding, one weaned), in total three people, Handî has contracted and acquired (them) f[or x m]inas of silver. The mon[ey is pai]d [in full. Those people are purchased (and) acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is void.]

o 44

01-et šá GA 01-et pir-si

o 55

PAB 03 ZI-MEŠ ú-piš-ma

o 66

mḫa-an-di-i ina [ŠÀ-bi x] MA.NA KUG.UD

o 77

il-qi kas-[pi gam-mur]

o 88

[ta]-din [UN-MEŠ šu-a-]

o 99

[za-rip laq-qe tu-a-ru]

o 1010

[de-e-nu DUG₄.DUG₄ la-áš-šú]

rest broken away
Reverse
rbeginning broken away
r 1'1'

[kas-pu a-na] 10-[MEŠ-te]

(r 1') [He shall pay the money] ten[fold t]o its owner. Should he l[itigate in] his [law]suit, he will not succe[ed.]

r 2'2'

[a]-na EN-šú ú-[ta-ra]

r 3'3'

[ina de]-ni-šu DUG₄.[DUG₄-ma]

r 4'4'

la i-laq-qi


r 5'5'

IGI mx x [...]

(r 5') Witness: ... [....]

r 6'6'

IGI [m...]

(r 6') W[itness: ....]

r 7'7'

[IGI] mx-[...]-ka-a

(r 7') Witness: [...].

r 8'8'

IGI mšùl-mu-EN

(r 8') Witness: Šulmu-bē[li.]

r 9'9'

IGI m10-ka-bar [...]

(r 9') Witness: Adda-kabar [....]

r 10'10'

IGI msa-gi-bi-[i]

(r 10') Witness: Sagīb[u.]

Left
l.e. 1l.e. 1

[ITI.x UD-x]-KAM lim-[mu] mmi--ni

(l.e. 1) [Month ..., nth day], eponym year of Mitūnu, [gover]nor of Isana.

l.e. 22

[*.šá]-kìn i-sa!?-na


Adapted from D. Homès-Fredericq and P. Garelli, Ma'allānāte, Archives d'un centre provincial de l'empire assyrien (Akkadica Supplementum 13), 2017, by Mary Frazer, 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 and translated into English by Mary Frazer. The online edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/atae/P522850/.