Marqasu 01

CDLI P522546
Collection no.: 36.1.07
Primary publication(s): Marqasu 01

Provenance

Provenience: Kahramanmaraş (Marqasu)
Archive: 099 - Miscellaneous

Object Details

Object type: tablet
Material: clay
Script: Neo-Assyrian
Sealed/Marked: yes
Seal/Mark Type: fingernail
Seal Owner(s): Tardītu-Aššur

Text Details

Language: Akkadian (Neo-Assyrian)
Genre: Legal Transaction
Subgenre: sales document (person)
Seller: Tardītu-Aššur
Buyer: Urdu-Nanāya
Creditor:

Date

Period: Neo-Assyrian
Reign: Sennacherib (704–681 BC)
Dated: yes
Date: 701-IX-09 (Kislīmu 9th, eponymy of Hanāna, governor of Til-Barsip)

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Marqasu 01 [sales document (person)]


Obverse
o 1o 1	ku-um NA₄.KIŠIB ṣu-pur-šú GAR-nu	(1) Instead of his seal, he impressed his fingernail.

	nail impressions

o 22	ṣu-pur ^mtar-di-ti-aš-šur EN UN.MEŠ	(2) Fingernail of Tardītu-Aššūr, the owner of the people being sold. Urdu-Nanāya has contracted and acquired Raʾuzu, Rēmanni-Adad, and (the woman) Meniaḫur, his (that is, Tardītu-Aššūr’s) slaves, for two minas of silver.
o 33	ta-da-nu ^mra-ú-zu ^mre-man-ni-^dIM
o 44	^fme-ni-a-ḫur ⸢ARAD⸣.MEŠ-šú ^mARAD-^dna-na-a
o 55	ú-piš-ma ina ŠÀ-bi
o 66	02 MA.NA KÙ.BABBAR il-qe
o 77	kas-pu ga-mur ta-din	(7) The money is paid completely. Those people are purchased (and) acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is void.
o 88	UN.MEŠ šu-a-ti za-ár-pu
o 99	la-qi-ú ⸢tu⸣-a-ru de-ni
o 1010	da-ba-ba la-áš-šú man-nu	(10) Whoever in the future, at any time, whether (his) brothers, (or his) brother's sons (that is, his nephews), (or his) son, (or his) grandsons, seeks a lawsuit or litigation against Urdu-Nanāya, (or) against his sons, shall eat one mina of plucked wool and shall drink a full agannu-vessel of tanner’s paste. He shall tie four horses to the feet of Nergal, who resides in Marqasu, and desposit one mina of gold in the lap of Laṣ. He shall pay the money tenfold to its owner. Should he litigate in his lawsuit, he will not succeed.
o 1111	ša ina ur-kiš ma-te₁₀-e-ma
o 1212	lu-ú PAB.MEŠ DUMU PAB.MEŠ DUMU.MEŠ
o 1313	DUMU DUMU.MEŠ ša de-ni da-ba-ba
o 1414	TA^* ^mARAD-^dna-na-a TA^* DUMU.MEŠ-šú ub-ta-u-ni
o 1515	01 MA.NA ger-di KÚ mar a-ga-nu kur-ru
o 1616	NAG 04^* ANŠE.KUR.RA.MEŠ
o 1717	ina GÌR.2 ^dU.GUR a-šib URU.mar-BAN
Bottom
b.e. 18b.e. 18	i-rak-kas 01 MA.NA KÙ.⸢GI⸣
b.e. 1919	ina bur-ki ^dla-aṣ
Reverse
r 20r 20	i-šak-kan KÙ.BABBAR 10-a-ta
r 2121	a-na EN-šú ú-šal-lam
r 2222	ina de-ni-šú i-da-bu-ub-ma
r 2323	la i-la-qe

r 2424	IGI ^mEN-PAB-AŠ	(24) Witness: Bēl-aḫu-iddina.
r 2525	IGI ^mka-par LÚ^*.A.BA	(25) Witness: Kapar, scribe.
r 2626	IGI ^mtab-ni-15 LÚ^*.mu-kil-PA.MEŠ	(26) Witness: Tabni-Issār, chariot driver.
r 2727	IGI ^mía-na-a-a LÚ^*.TÚG.UD	(27) Witness: Yāna-aya, fuller.
r 2828	IGI ^m^dUTU-tak-lak LÚ^*.ša-UGU-URU	(28) Witness: Šamaš-taklāk, city overseer.
r 2929	IGI ^m^dPA-sa^!-si-a LÚ^*.ḫa-za-nu	(29) Witness: Nabû-sasia, mayor.
r 3030	IGI ^mza-za-a-a IGI ^mṣi-lu LÚ^*.GAL-TIN-nu	(30) Witness: Zāzāya. Witness: Ṣillu, master builder.
r 3131	IGI ^mna-na-a-DINGIR LÚ^*.na-sik	(31) Witness: Nanāya-ili, sheikh.
r 3232	IGI ^m10-ka-bar₆ IGI ^mAD-ul-ZU	(32) Witness: Adda-Kabar. Witness: Abu-ul-īdi.
r 3333	IGI ^mÉ.SAG.GÍL LÚ^*.A.BA	(33) Witness: Esaggil, scribe (and) holder of the tablet.
r 3434	ṣa-bit e-gír-ti ITI.GAN	(33) Witness: Esaggil, scribe (and) holder of the tablet.
r 3535	UD-09-KÁM lim-mu ^mḫa-na-nu	(35) Month Kislīmu (IX), 9th day, eponym year of Ḫanāna, governor of Til-Barsip.
r 3636	LÚ^*.GAR.KUR URU.tar-bu-si-i

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 prepared by Poppy Tushingham. The online edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/atae/P522546/.