Marqasu 04 [sales document (person)]
Obverse | ||
o 1o 1 | (1) Seal of Sesa-dalâ, major-domo. | |
o 22 | (2) Seal of Bānītu-tēreš, scribe. | |
o 33 | (3) Seal of Galul, the chariot driver. | |
o 44 | (4) Seal of Sîn-zēru-iddina, third man (on the chariot). | |
o 55 | (5) Seal of Bēl-šarru-uṣur, cohort commander. | |
o 66 | (6) Seal of Aya-dādi, scribe. | |
o 77 | (7) Seal of Ṣalam-šarri-iqbi, chief of accounts. | |
o 88 | (8) Seal of Ḫarrānāyu. (Seal of) Ašḫīri. | |
o 99 | (9) Seal of Bēl-salim. (Seal of) Kiṣirî. | |
o 1010 | (10) Seal of Ḫatê-nūrī (and) Nabû-bēssunu. | |
o 1111 | (11) Total: twelve men, the owners of the woman being sold. | |
5 stamp seal impressions | ||
o 1212 | ||
o 1313 | (13) Ubru-Nergal has contracted and bought Damanâ, the female slave, from these men for [half a] mina of silver, by the mina of [Carchemish]. The money is paid completely. That woman is purchased and acquired, Any revocation, lawsuit or litigation is void. | |
o 1414 | ||
o 1515 | ina ŠÀ-[bi 1/2] ⸢MA⸣.NA [KÙ.BABBAR] | |
Bottom | ||
b.e. 16b.e. 16 | ||
b.e. 1717 | ||
b.e. 1818 | ||
b.e. 1919 | ||
Reverse | ||
r 20r 20 | ||
r 2121 | ||
r 2222 | (22) (Guaranteed) against seizures for 100 days, against crime for all time. | |
r 2323 | ||
r 2424 | (24) Whoever in the future, at any time, violates (the contract), shall return the money tenfold to its owners. Should he litigate in his lawsuit, he will not succeed. | |
r 2525 | ||
r 2626 | ||
r 2727 | ||
r 2828 | ||
r 2929 | ||
r 3030 | (30) Witness: Marduk-šarru-uṣur, governor. | |
r 3131 | (31) Witness: Sēʾ-dalâ, ditto. | |
r 3232 | (32) Witness: Aya-aḫḫē, scribe. | |
r 3333 | (33) Witness: Qurdî. | |
r 3434 | (34) Witness: Sēʾ-mabâʾ. | |
r 3535 | (35) Witness: Nergal-aḫu-uṣur. | |
r 3636 | (36) Witness: Tarḫunza-pi. | |
r 3737 | (37) Witness: Ḫuzurara. | |
r 3838 | ITI.ŠE UD-03-KÁM lim-mu mITI.AB-a-a | (38) Month Addaru (XII), 3rd day, eponym year of Kanūnāyu. |
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/P522549/.