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Til-Barsip 22

  • CDLI P522612
  • Excavation no.: T 22
  • Primary publication(s): Til-Barsip 22

Provenance

  • Provenience: Tell Ahmar (Til Barsip) (Pleiades ID: 658410)
  • Archive: 001 - Hanni Archive (House C1)

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

Date

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

Til-Barsip 22 [sales document][via atae/tilbarsip]

Obverse
oo beginning broken away
3 lines at least with illegible traces
o 1'1'

[...] ú-piš-[ma]

(1') [... he] has contracted [and acquired fo]r four minas [of silver. The mo]ney [is paid] completely. that man] is purchased (and) [acquired. Any revocation,] lawsuit (or) litigation is void.

o 2'2'

[... ina ŠÀ]-bi 4 (or: 5) MA.NA

o 3'3'

[KÙ.BABBAR TA IGI ... il-qí kas]-⸢pu⸣ ga-mur

o 4'4'

[ta-din LÚ? šu]-a-te za-rip

o 5'5'

[laq-qí tu-a-ru] ⸢de⸣-nu DUG₄.DUG₄

o 6'6'

[la-áš-šú man-nu šá] ina ur-kiš

(6') [Whoever] in the future [...] ... [...] ... [...] his people

o 7'7'

[...] ⸢x x x⸣

o 8'8'

[...] ⸢x x x⸣-qi-a-a

o 9'9'

[...] LÚ.MEŠ-šú-nu

Lacuna
Reverse
r 10'r 10'

[IGI m...]-ba-a-a

(10') [Witness: ...]bayu.

r 11'11'

[IGI ...] SUKKAL?

(11') [Witness: ...], vizier.

r 12'12'

[IGI ...] LÚ.DAM.GÀR

(12') [Witness: ...], merchant.

r 13'13'

[IGI ... LÚ.DAM].GÀR URU.kal-ḫa

(13') [Witness: ..., mer]chant from Kalhu.

r 14'14'

[IGI ...] ša URU.BÀD-MAN-GIN

(14') [Witness: ...], from Dur-Šarruken.

r 15'15'

[IGI ...] URU.kal-ḫa-a-a

(15') [Witness: ...], the Kalhean.

r 16'16'

[IGI ...] ḫa?-ni-gi

(16') [Witness: ...] ...

r 17'17'

[IGI ...] x URU.⸢kal⸣-[ḫa? (x x)]

(17') [Witness: ...] (from) Ka[lhu ...].

r 18'18'

[IGI ...] ab-di-[...]

(18') [Witness:] ... [...].

r 19'19'

[IGI ...] ⸢x⸣ ARAD ⸢x⸣ [...]

(19') [Witness: ...], servant of [...].

r 20'20'

[...] x UD [...]

(20') [...] ... [...].

Lacuna?

Adapted from Stephanie Dalley, “Neo-Assyrian Tablets from Til Barsib," Abr-Nahrain 34 (1996–97) pp. 66–99, 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 Dalley’s translation. The online edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/atae/P522612/.