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ACP 02

CDLI P522851
Collection no.: MRAH O.3706
Primary publication(s): ACP 02

Provenance

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

Object Details

Object type: tablet
Material: clay
Script: Neo-Assyrian
Sealed/Marked: yes
Seal/Mark Type: stamp seal; shell
Seal Owner(s): Silim-Adad

Text Details

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

Date

Period: Neo-Assyrian
Reign: Sennacherib (704–681 BC)
Dated: yes
Date: 693-XII-23 (Addaru 23rd, eponymy of Iddin-ahi, of Ṣimir)

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ACP 02 [sales document (person)][via atae/mallanate]


Obverse
o 1o 1	NA₄.KIŠIB ^msi-lim-10	(o 1) Seal of Silim-Adad, the owner of the people being sold.
o 22	EN UN-MEŠ SUM-an

	two stamp seal impressions

o 33	^mse-eʾ-lu-u-a MÍ.ba-ta-ia-a	(o 3) Regarding Sē-lawā (and) Bataia, his wife, in total two people, slaves belonging to Silim-Adad: Handî, the šaknu, has contracted and acquired (them) from Silim-Adad for 35 minas of silver. The money is paid completely. Those people are purchased (and) acquired.
o 44	MÍ-šú PAB 02 ZI ARAD-MEŠ
o 55	ša ^msi-lim-10 ú-piš-ma
o 66	^mḫa-an-di-i LÚ^*.GAR-nu
o 77	TA^* pa-an ^msi-lim-10 ina ŠÀ-bi
o 88	35 GÍN KUG.UD il-qi kas-pi
o 99	ga-mur ta-din-ni UN-MEŠ
o 1010	šu-a-tu₄ za-ár-<ip^!?> TI tu-a-ru	(o 10) Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is void. Whoever in the future, at any time, whether Silim-Adad, or his children, or his grandchildren, or his brother, his šaknu, his cousin, or his wife, seeks a lawsuit or litigation against Handî or his sons, shall deposit 2 minas of pure silver and 1 mina of gold in the lap of Adad of Guzāna. He shall pay the money tenfold to its owner. Should he litigate in the lawsuit, he will not succeed.
o 1111	de-ni DUG₄.DUG₄ NU-a-šú man-nu
o 1212	šá ina ur-kiš ina-a-mat-e-ma
o 1313	lu-u ^msi-lim-10 lu-u DUMU-MEŠ-šú
o 1414	lu-u DUMU.DUMU-MEŠ-šú lu-u ŠEŠ-šú
Reverse
r 1r 1	lu-u GAR-nu lu-u qur-ub-šú lu^?-u^?
r 22	lu-u DAM-šú ša de-ni DUG₄.DUG₄
r 33	TA^* ^mḫa-an-di-i ù DUMU-šú
r 44	ub-ta-u-nu 02 MA.NA KUG.UD LUḪ^!
r 55	01 MA.NA KUG.GI ina bur-ki ^dIM
r 66	a-šib URU.gu-za-ni i-šá-kan
r 77	kas-pi a-na 10-MEŠ ina EN-šú GUR
r 88	ina de-ni-šú DUG₄.DUG₄-ma là TI

r 99	IGI ^mPAB-bu-u LÚ^*.kal-lap	(r 9) Witness: Ah-abû, infantry soldier.
r 1010	IGI ^mEN-AD-ia LÚ^*.DUMU-SIG šá ^m^dKU-SIG x	(r 10) Witness: Bēl-abūʾa, chariot fighter of Marduk-mudammiq.
r 1111	IGI ^m10-ḫa-ri LÚ^*.DAM.QAR	(r 11) Witness: Adda-hāri, merchant.
r 1212	IGI ^msa-la-ma-nu	(r 12) Witness: Salāmānu.
r 1313	IGI ^msa-bu-ri LÚ^*.MUŠEN-DÙ	(r 13) Witness: Sabbūru, fowler.
r 1414	IGI ^m^dPA-SAG-i-ši	(r 14) Witness: Nabû-rēšī-išši.
r 1515	ITI.ŠE UD-23-KAM	(r 15) Month Addaru (XII), 23rd day, eponym year of Iddin-ahi of Ṣimir.
r 1616	lim-mu ^mSUM-PAB ša URU.ṣi-mir
r 1717	01 GÍN KUG.UD ša NA₄.KIŠIB-šú	(r 17) 1 shekel of silver for his seal.

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/P522851/.