Burmarina 01

CDLI P522614
Collection no.: NMSA —
Excavation no.: TSF 97 F 200/126 + 209 + 220
Primary publication(s): Burmarina 01

Provenance

Provenience: Tell Shiukh Fawqani (Burmarina)
Archive: 001 - Area F, Private Archive

Object Details

Object type: tablet
Material: clay
Script: Neo-Assyrian

Text Details

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

Date

Period: Neo-Assyrian
Reign: Esarhaddon (680–669 BC)
Dated: yes, but date partially preserved
Date: 673-[...]-[...] ([... ...th], eponymy of Atār-[ilī])

Views

Burmarina 01 [sales document (person)]


Obverse
o 1o 1	[ṣu]-pu-[ur ^m]⸢KÁ⸣.DINGIR-a-[a]	(1) Fingernail of Babilāyu, owner of the men being sold.
	4 × 3 fingernail impressions preserved
o 22	[EN] ⸢LÚ.MEŠ⸣ ta-da-a-ni

o 33	[^mx-x-x]-⸢se⸣-eʾ	(3) [...]-Sēʾ (and) [...]mu [...]
o 44	[^mx-x-x]-mu
	traces of four undecipherable lines
o 5'5'	[kas-pu] gam-mur ⸢ta⸣-din	(5') The money is paid completely. These men are purchased and acquired. There will be no revocation, lawsuit, or litigation. Whoever in the future, at any time breaks the contract, whether Babilāyu or his sons or his grandsons, and [seeks] a lawsuit or ltigation against Kubaba-līdi or his sons or his grandsons [...]
o 6'6'	[LÚ.MEŠ] šu-a-tu [za]-rip [la-qi]
o 7'7'	[tu]-a-ru de-e-nu ⸢DUG₄⸣.[DUG₄]
o 8'8'	[la]-áš-šú man-nu ša i-[na ur-kiš i-na]
o 9'9'	[ma]-⸢te⸣-ma GIL-[u-ni]
o 10'10'	[lu-u] ^mKÁ.DINGIR-a-a
o 11'11'	[lu-u] DUMU.MEŠ-šú DUMU-⸢DUMU⸣.[MEŠ-šú]
o 12'12'	[ša] ⸢de⸣-e-nu DUG₄.⸢DUG₄⸣
o 13'13'	[TA^*] ^mKU₆-li-di
o 14'14'	[TA^*] DUMU.MEŠ-šú DUMU-[DUMU.MEŠ-šú]
Bottom
b.e.b.e.	not inscribed
Reverse
rr	traces of three undecipherable lines
r 1'1'	[ITI.x UD-x]-KAM lim-mu ^ma-tar-[DINGIR]	(r 1') Month [..., ...]th [day], eponym year of Atār-[ilī] (673 BC).
r 2'2'	[IGI ^mx-x]-pa-a LÚ.DIB-⸢KUŠ⸣.[PA.MEŠ]	(r 2') Witness [...]pâ, chariot driver.
r 3'3'	[IGI ^mx-x]-gu-uḫ-⸢ḫab⸣-[x-x-(x)]	(r 3') Witness [...]guḫḫab[...].
r 4'4'	[IGI ^m^d]⸢MAŠ⸣.MAŠ-IGI.LAL	(r 4') Witness Nergal-lamur.
r 5'5'	[IGI ^m]⸢ba⸣-si-i ⸢LÚ⸣.[x-x-x]	(r 5') Witness Basî, [...].
r 6'6'	[IGI ^m^d]⸢PA⸣-I ⸢LÚ⸣.[x-x-x]	(r 6') Witness Nabû-naʾdi, [...].
r 7'7'	[IGI ^mx-x]-a-a ⸢LÚ⸣.[x-x-x]	(r 7') Witness [...]aya, [...].
r 8'8'	[IGI ^mx-x]-ub-KU₆ ⸢LÚ⸣.[x-x-x]	(r 8') Witness [...]ub-Kubaba, [...].
r 9'9'	[IGI ^mx-x-x]-ṣi-⸢bu⸣ [...]	(r 9') Witness [...]ṣibu, [...].
r 10'10'	[IGI ^mx-x-la]-mur [...]	(r 10') Witness [...]-lamur, [...].
	gap of undetermined length
	uninscribed space
	remainder gone

Adapted from Frederick Mario Fales, Karen Radner, Cinzua Pappi, Ezio Attardo, The Assyrian and Aramaic Texts from Tell Shiukh Fawqani, in Frederick Mario Fales and Luc Bachelot (eds.), Tell Shiukh Fawqani 1994–1998 (History of Ancient Near East Monographs 6/2), 2005, by Poppy Tushingham and Jamie Novotny (2018–2021) 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. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/atae/P522614/.