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ACP 40

  • CDLI P522889
  • Collection no.: MRAH O.3667
  • Primary publication(s): ACP 40

Provenance

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

Object Details

  • Object type: tablet
  • Material: clay
  • Script: Neo-Assyrian
  • Sealed/Marked: unknown

Text Details

  • Language: Akkadian (Neo-Assyrian)
  • Genre: Legal Transaction
  • Subgenre: sales document (field)

Date

  • Period: Neo-Assyrian
  • Reign: uncertain
  • Dated: yes, but date completely destroyed

ACP 40 [sales document (field)][via atae/mallanate]

Obverse
o 1’o 1’

[...]

(o 1’) [...]

o 2’2’

[ú]-piš-ma mx-[...]

(o 2’) [PN] has concluded a sale and acquired (it) for 6 shekels of silver.

o 3’3’

ina lìb-bi 6 GÍN-MEŠ .UD

o 4’4’

il-qe kas-pu gam-mur ta-din

(o 4’) The silver is paid in full. That land is purchased (and) acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is void.

o 5’5’

A.ŠÀ šu-a- za-rip laq-qe

o 6’6’

tu-a-ru de-e-nu DUG₄.DUG₄ la-a-šú

o 7’7’

man-nu ša ina ur-kiš ina ma-te-ma!

(o 7’) Whoever raises an objection in the future, at any time, will pay silver tenfold to its owner. Should he litigate in a lawsuit he will not succeed.

Reverse
r 1’r 1’

i-za-qu-pa-an-ni i-GIL-u-ni

r 2’2’

kas-pu a-na 10-MEŠ-te

r 3’3’

a-na EN-šu GUR

r 4’4’

ina de-ni-šú DUG₄.DUG₄-ma TI


r 5’5’

IGI mdPA?-[x-x] *.ḫa-za-nu

(r 5’) Witness: Na[-...], mayor.

r 6’6’

IGI m[x-x-x]-ki

(r 6’) Witness: ...ki

r 7’7’

[...]-x-i

(r 7’) [...]...


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/P522889/.