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ACP 05

CDLI P522854
Collection no.: MRAH O.3681
Primary publication(s): ACP 05

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): Šulmu-ahhē

Text Details

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

Date

Period: Neo-Assyrian
Reign: Esarhaddon (680–669 BC)
Dated: yes
Date: 675-IV-25 (Duʾūzu 25th, eponymy of Nabû-ahhē-iddina)

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ACP 05 [sales document (person)][via atae/mallanate]


Obverse
o 1o 1	[NA₄.KIŠIB ^m]DI-mu-PAB-ME	(o 1) Seal of Šulmu-aḫḫē, son of Bēl-aḫu-uṣur, from the city of Arbil, the owner of the man being sold.
o 22	A [^m]EN-PAB-PAB
o 33	URU.arba-ìl-a-a
o 44	EN LÚ ta-da-ni

	cylinder seal impression

o 55	^m^dPA-⸢tak⸣-lak ARAD-šú	(o 5) (Concerning) Nabû-taklak, slave of Šulmu-aḫḫē: Handî contracted and acquired (him) from Kalhāiu for 1 mina of silver (using) the king's weight. The silver is paid completely. That man is purchased (and) acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is void.
o 66	ša ^mDI-mu-PAB-MEŠ
o 77	ú-piš-ma ^mḫa-an-di-i
o 88	TA^* IGI ^mDI-mu-PAB-MEŠ
o 99	ina ŠÀ-bi 01 MA.NA KUG.UD ina ša MAN
o 1010	il-qi kas-pu ga-mur
o 1111	ta-din-ni LÚ šu-a-tú
o 1212	za-rip laq-qi tu-a-ru
o 1313	de-e-nu DUG₄.DUG₄ la-áš-šú
Reverse
r 1r 1	man-nu ša ina ur-kiš ina ma-ti-ma	(r 1) Whoever in the future, at any time, whether Šulmu-aḫḫē, or his children, or his grandchildren, or his siblings, who seeks a lawsuit or litigation against Handî, shall deposit 5 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.
r 22	i-za-qu-pa-a-ni
r 33	lu-u ^mDI-mu-PAB-MEŠ lu-u DUMU-MEŠ-šú
r 44	lu-u DUMU.DUMU-MEŠ-šú lu-u ŠEŠ-MEŠ-šú
r 55	ša TA^* ^{m^!}ḫa-an-di-i
r 66	de-e-nu DUG₄.DUG₄ ub-ta-u-ni
r 77	05 MA.NA KUG.UD LUḪ-u
r 88	01 MA.NA KUG.GI sak-ru
r 99	ina bur-ki ^diš-tar a-ši-⸢bat⸣ URU.ni-na-a
r 1010	i-šá-kan kas-pu a-na 10-MEŠ-a-te
r 1111	a-na EN-šú ú-ta-ra
r 1212	ina de-ni-šú DUG₄.DUG₄ la i-laq-qi

r 1313	IGI ^mPAB-u-nu	(r 13) Witness: Aḫūnu.
r 1414	IGI ^mSU-15^!	(r 14) Witness: Erība-Issar.
r 1515	IGI ^mṭu-ru-ba-a	(r 15) Witness: Ṭurubâ.
r 1616	IGI ^mDINGIR-la-SU	(r 16) Witness: Ilassu.
r 1717	IGI ^mGUR-u-u-a	(r 17) Witness: Gūrūwa.
r 1818	IGI ^mNUMUN-u-te-i LÚ^*.A.BA	(r 18) Witness: Zārūtî, scribe.
r 1919	ITI.ŠU UD-25-KAM	(r 19) Month of Dūmūzi (4), 25th day, eponym year of Nabû-aḫḫē-iddina, the Great Treasurer.
r 2020	lim^!-mu ^m^dPA-PAB-MEŠ-SUM-na
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t.e. 21t.e. 21	LÚ^*.IGI.DUB GAL-u

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/P522854/.