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ACP 04

CDLI P522853
Collection no.: MRAH O.3695
Primary publication(s): ACP 04

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): Kalhāyu

Text Details

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

Date

Period: Neo-Assyrian
Reign: Sennacherib (704–681 BC)
Dated: yes
Date: 683-I-28 (Nisannu 28th, eponymy of Mannu-kī-Adad)

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ACP 04 [sales document (person)][via atae/mallanate]


Obverse
o 1o 1	NA₄.KIŠIB ^mURU.kal-ḫa-a-a	(o 1) Seal of Kalḫāiu, kāṣiru-administrator of the palace, the owner of the man being sold.
o 22	LÚ^*.KA.KÉŠ šá É.GAL
o 33	EN LÚ SUM-ni

	seal impression

o 44	^m^dUTU-PAB-PAB ARAD-šú	(o 4) Regarding Šamaš-ahu-uṣur, his slave: Handî has contracted and acquired (him) from Kalhāiu for 1 1/2 mina of silver (using) the Carchemish weight. The silver is paid completely. That man is purchased (and) acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is void. 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 55	ú-ta-piš ^mḫa-an-di-i
o 66	ina ŠÀ-bi 01 1/2 MA.NA KUG.UD
o 77	ina ša URU.gar-ga-mis
o 88	TA^* IGI ^mURU.kal-ḫa-a-a il-qi
o 99	kas-pu gam-mur ta-din
o 1010	LÚ za-rip la-qi
Bottom
b.e. 11b.e. 11	de-nu DUG₄.DUG₄ la-áš-šú
Reverse
r 1r 1	DIB^! be-en-nu ina 01 me UD-MEŠ	(r 1) (There is a guarantee) against an epileptic attack for 100 days and (against) falsehood forever. Whoever objects shall pay 5 minas of silver.
r 22	sa-ar-tú a-na kal UD-MEŠ
r 33	ša ib-bal-kàt-u-ni
r 44	05 MA.NA KUG.UD SUM-an

r 55	IGI ^mEN-IGI.LAL-a-ni	(r 5) Witness: Bēl-ēmuranni.
r 66	IGI ^mDÙG-bi-i	(r 6) Witness: Ṭābi.
r 77	IGI ^mta-gi-bi-i	(r 7) Witness: Tagibî.
r 88	IGI ^mBE-PAB-PAB	(r 8) Witness: Illil-ahu-uṣur.
r 99	IGI ^mU.GUR-bal-liṭ	(r 9) Witness: Nergal-balliṭ.
r 1010	IGI ^mAD-ra-mu	(r 10) Witness: Ab-rāmu.
r 1111	ITI.BARAG UD-28	(r 11) Month of Nisannu (I), 28th (day), eponym year of Mannu-kī-Adad.
r 1212	lim-mu ^mman-nu-ki-10

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/P522853/.