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Marqasu 17

CDLI P522562
Collection no.: YE 1186
Primary publication(s): Marqasu 17

Provenance

Provenience: Kahramanmaraş (Marqasu)
Archive: 099 - Miscellaneous

Object Details

Object type: tablet
Material: clay
Script: Neo-Assyrian
Sealed/Marked: yes
Seal/Mark Type: stamp seal
Seal Owner(s): Nabû-bēl-šumāti; Nabû-šallim-ahhē

Text Details

Language: Akkadian (Neo-Assyrian)
Genre: Legal Transaction
Subgenre: sales document (person)
Seller: Nabû-bēl-šumāti; Nabû-šallim-ahhē
Buyer: Lā-qēpu
Creditor:

Date

Period: Neo-Assyrian
Reign: Esarhaddon (680–669 BC)
Dated: yes
Date: 669-VI-28 (Ulūlu 28th, eponymy of Šamaš-kāšid-ayyābi)

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Marqasu 17 [sales document (person)][via atae/marqasu]


Obverse
o 1o 1	NA₄.KIŠIB ^m^dPA-EN-MU.MEŠ	(1) Seal of Nabû-bēl-šumāti.
o 22	NA₄.KIŠIB ^m^dPA-šal-lim-PAB.MEŠ	(2) Seal of Nabû-šallim-aḫḫē.
o 33	PAB 02 LÚ.MEŠ EN LÚ SUM-ni	(3) A total of two men, the owners of the man being sold.

	2 stamp seal impressions

o 44	^mPAB-im-me-e LÚ^*.AŠGAB ARAD-šú-nu
o 55	ú-piš-ma ^mla-qe-pu	(5) Lā-qēpu has contracted, purchased, and bought Aḫ-immê, the leatherworker, their slave, from these men for thirty shekels of silver. The money is paid completely. That man is purchased and acquired, any revocation, lawsuit or litigation is void.
o 66	TA^* IGI LÚ.MEŠ an-nu-te
o 77	ina ŠÀ 30 GÍN KÙ.BABBAR i-zi-rip
o 88	i-si-qi kas-pu ga-mur ta-din
o 99	⸢LÚ⸣ šu-a-tú za-rip la-qi
o 1010	tu-a-ru de-e-nu DUG₄.DUG₄ la-áš-šú
o 1111	man-nu ša ina ur-kiš ina ma-ti-ma	(11) Whoever in the future, at any time, whether these men, or their sons, or their grandsons, or their governor, or the men responsible for their ilku-duties, whoever seeks a lawsuit or litigation against Lā-qēpu, his sons, or his grandsons, should deposit ten minas of silver and two minas of gold in the lap of Nergal, who resides in Marqasu.
o 1212	lu-u LÚ.MEŠ an-nu-ti
o 1313	lu-u DUMU.MEŠ-šú-nu lu-u DUMU.DUMU.MEŠ-šú-nu
o 1414	lu-u LÚ^*.EN.NAM-su-nu
Bottom
b.e. 15b.e. 15	lu-u LÚ^*.ERIM.MEŠ EN-il-ki-šu-nu
b.e. 1616	ša de-e-nu DUG₄.DUG₄
b.e. 1717	TA^* ^mla-qe-pi
Reverse
r 18r 18	DUMU.MEŠ-šú DUMU DUMU.MEŠ-šú
r 1919	ub-ta-u-ni 10 MA KÙ.BABBAR
r 2020	02 MA KÙ.GI ina bur-ki ^dU.GUR
r 2121	a-šib URU.mar-BAN GAR-an
r 2222	kas-pu 10.MEŠ-te ina EN-šú GUR	(22) He should return the money tenfold to its owners. Should he litigate in his lawsuit, he will not succeed.
r 2323	ina de-⸢ni-šú⸣ DUG₄.DUG₄ la i-laq-qe
r 2424	IGI ^m⸢EN⸣-KASKAL-KI-ia	(24) Witness: Bēl-Ḫarrān-issēʾa.
r 2525	IGI ^m^dPA-ZÁLAG-ir	(25) Witness: Nabû-nammir.
r 2626	IGI ^me-ṣi-da-a-a	(26) Witness: Ēṣidāyu.
r 2727	IGI ^mḫa-am-bi-i	(27) Witness: Ḫambî.
r 2828	IGI ^mse-ʾ-ma-ba-ʾ	(28) Witness: Sēʾ-mabâʾ.
r 2929	IGI ^mab-ni-i	(29) Witness: Abnî.
r 3030	IGI ^m10-A-SUM-na	(30) Witness: Adad-aplu-iddina.
r 3131	IGI ^mgu-ti-a-pa	(31) Witness: Gutiapa.
r 3232	IGI ^mda-šá-a-nu	(32) Witness: Dašânu.
r 3333	IGI ^mbur-na-ṭar-ru	(33) Witness: Būr-naṭāru.
r 3434	IGI ^mmu-gal-li	(34) Witness: Mugallu.
r 3535	ITI.KIN UD-28-KÁM	(35) Month Ulūlu (VI), 28th day, eponym year of Šamaš-kāšid-ayyābi.
Top
t.e. 36t.e. 36	lim-mu ^m^dUTU-KUR-a-a-bi
Left
l.e. 37l.e. 37	IGI ^m^dPA-SUM-MU LÚ^*.A.BA	(37) Witness: Nabû-nādin-šumi, scribe.

Adapted from C. Günbattı, S. Çeçen, L.G. Gökçek, and F. Akyüz, Kahramanmaraş'ta Bulunmuş Yeni Asurca Tabletler, 2020, by 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 by Jamie Novotny and the English translation was adapted by Poppy Tushingham from E. Jiménez, S.F. Adalı and K. Radner, "Four 7th-Century BCE Neo-Assyrian Slave Sale Records from Marqasi (Kahramanmaraş) in the Erimtan Museum (Ankara) and Elsewhere," Altorientalische Forschungen 42 (2015): 153-172. The online edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/atae/P522562/.