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ACP 03

CDLI P522852
Collection no.: MRAH O.3680
Primary publication(s): ACP 03

Provenance

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

Object Details

Object type: tablet
Material: clay
Script: Neo-Assyrian
Sealed/Marked: yes
Seal/Mark Type: cylinder seal
Number of Sealings:
Seal Owner(s): Adda-qatar

Text Details

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

Date

Period: Neo-Assyrian
Reign: Sennacherib (704–681 BC)
Dated: yes
Date: 687-II-21 (Ayyaru 21th, eponymy of Sennacherib, king of Assyria)

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ACP 03 [sales document (person)][via atae/mallanate]


Obverse
o 1o 1	NA₄.KIŠIB ^m10-qa-tar	(o 1) Seal of Adda-qatar, the owner of the people being sold.
o 22	EN UN-MEŠ ta-da-ni

	cylinder seal impression

o 33	^mḫa-an-da-ru ^mḫa-an-ši-i	(o 3) Regarding Handaru, Hanšî, and Bīdû, in total three people, slaves belonging to Adda-qatar: Handî has contracted and acquired (them) for 1 mina of silver (using) the royal weight. The silver is paid completely. Those people are purchased (and) acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is void.
o 44	MÍ.bi-du-ú PAB 03 ZI-MEŠ
o 55	LÚ ARAD-MEŠ ša ^m10-qa-tar
o 66	ú-piš-ma ^mḫa-an-di-i
o 77	ina ŠÀ-bi 01 MA.⸢NA⸣ KUG.UD ⸢ša⸣ MAN
o 88	TA IGI-šú il-qi kas-pi
o 99	gam-mur ta-din UN-MEŠ šu-a-tú
o 1010	zar-pi la-qi-u tu-a-ru
o 1111	⸢de⸣-ni DUG₄.DUG₄ la-a-šú
o 1212	[man]-⸢nu⸣ <ša> ⸢i-za-qu^!-pa⸣-ni lu-u ^m10-qa-tar	(o 12) Whoever in the future, at any time, whether Adda-qatar, or his children, or his relations, whoever it may be, who seeks a lawsuit or litigation against Handî, his sons, or his descendants, shall deposit 10 minas of pure silver and 1 mina of refined gold in the lap of Ishtar of Nineveh. He shall pay the money tenfold to its owner. Should he litigate in the lawsuit, he will not succeed.
o 1313	[lu-u] DUMU-MEŠ-šú lu-u [DUMU.DUMU-MEŠ-šú]
o 1414	[lu-u] me-me-nu lu-u [mám-ma ša]
Bottom
b.e. 15b.e. 15	[de-e-nu] DUG₄.DUG₄ [TA]
Reverse
r 1r 1	[^mḫa-an-di]-i ⸢ù⸣
r 22	[DUMU-MEŠ-šú] ⸢ù⸣ EGIR-MEŠ-šú
r 33	[ub-ta-ʾu-ni] 10 MA.NA KUG.UD LUḪ
r 44	[01 MA.NA] ⸢KUG⸣.GI sak-ru ina bur-ki
r 55	[^diš]-tar ša URU.ni-nu-a GAR-an
r 66	[KUG.UD] ana 10-MEŠ-te ana EN-šú ú-tar
r 77	ina de-ni-šú DUG₄.DUG₄ là TI.LA
r 88	MÁŠ be-nu a-na 01-me u₄-mu-MEŠ	(r 8) (There is a guarantee) against an epileptic attack for 100 days and (against) falsehood forever.
r 99	sa-ár-tú a-na kàl MU-MEŠ

r 1010	IGI ^mqur-di-aš+šur IGI ^mkù-bab-id-ri LÚ^*.GAL.NINDA-MEŠ ša MÍ-É.GAL	(r 10) Witness: Qurdi-Aššūr. Witness: Kubābu-idrī, chief baker of the queen.
r 1111	IGI ^mPAB-li-ḫi-i IGI ^mKA-GIŠ EN-GIŠ.GIGIR	(r 11) Witness: Ahi-lihia. Witness: Pû-lēšir, chief of the chariot.
r 1212	IGI ^me-qa-a-a IGI ^mDÙG.GA-i	(r 12) Witness: Ēqaiu. Witness: Ṭābî.
r 1313	IGI ^m^dPA-PAB-MEŠ-SUM-na LÚ^*.mu-kil-PA-MEŠ	(r 13) Witness: Nabû-ahhē-iddina, chariot driver.
r 1414	IGI ^mDINGIR-ma-aʾ-di LÚ^*.DAM.QAR	(r 14) Witness: Il-ma'ādī, merchant.
r 1515	IGI ^mU.GUR-bal-liṭ LÚ^*.tar-bi-u	(r 15) Witness: Nergal-balliṭ, apprentice.
	(1 line blank)	(r 15) Witness: Nergal-balliṭ, apprentice.
r 1616	ITI.GUD UD-21-KAM lim-me	(r 16) Month Ayyaru (II), 21st day, eponym year of Sîn-ahhē-erība, king of Assyria.
r 1717	^m30-PAB-MEŠ-SU LUGAL KUR aš+šur

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/P522852/.