Marqasu 08

CDLI P522553
Collection no.: YE 1187
Primary publication(s): Marqasu 08

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): Hišar-uarri; Sanda-uarri; Sîn-na’di

Text Details

Language: Akkadian (Neo-Assyrian)
Genre: Legal Transaction
Subgenre: sales document (person)
Seller: Hišar-uarri; Sanda-uarri; Sîn-na’di
Buyer: Ubru-Nergal
Creditor:

Date

Period: Neo-Assyrian
Reign: Ashurbanipal (668–ca. 631 BC)
Dated: yes
Date: 641*-IX-09 (Kislīmu 9th, eponymy of Aššur-gārū’a-nēre)

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Marqasu 08 [sales document (person)]


Obverse
o 1o 1	NA₄.KIŠIB ^mḫi-šar-wár	(1) Seal of Ḫišar-uarri.
o 22	:. ^msa-an-da-wár :. ^m^d30-I	(2) Ditto of Sanda-uarri. Ditto of Sîn-naʾdi.
o 33	PAP 03 LÚ.MEŠ-e EN UN.MEŠ SUM-ni	(3) A total of three men, the owners of the people being sold.

	2 stamp seal impressions

o 44	^f^d15-dan-na-at	(4) Ubru-Nergal has contracted, purchased, and acquired Issār-dannat, Šamaš-adi-tamūti?, and Sēʾ-adarī, a total of three women, their slaves, from the above-mentioned men for half a mina and six shekels of silver.
o 55	^fUTU-EN-át-mu-ti
o 66	^fse-e-a-da-ri
o 77	PAP 3 MÍ.MEŠ GÉME.MEŠ-šú-nu
o 88	ú-piš-ma ^mSUḪUŠ-^dU.GUR
o 99	TA^* IGI LÚ.MEŠ an-nu-ti
o 1010	ina ŠÀ-bi 01 1/2 MA.NA 06 GÍN KÙ.BABBAR
o 1111	i-zi-rip i-si-qi
o 1212	kas-pu ga-mur SUM-ni	(12) The money is paid completely.
o 1313	UN.MEŠ šu-a-tú	(13) Those people are purchased and acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is void. [(Guaranteed) against seizures for 10]0 days, (against crime for all time).
o 1414	za-ár-pu la-qi-u
o 1515	tu-a-ru de-e-nu
o 1616	⸢DUG₄⸣.DUG₄ la-aš-šú
Reverse
r 17r 17	[ṣib-tú ina 01] ⸢me⸣ UD-me sa-ár-tú ina kal UD.MEŠ
r 1818	man-nu ša ina ur-kiš ina ma-ti-ma	(18) 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 1919	ib-bal-kàt-u-ni
r 2020	kas-pu ina 10.MEŠ ina EN-šú ú-GUR
r 2121	ina de-ni-šú DUG₄.DUG₄
r 2222	la i-⸢laq⸣-qe
r 2323	IGI ^mŠEŠ-IGI LÚ^*.GAR-nu šá É.GAL	(23) Witness: Aḫu-lāmur, palace prefect.
r 2424	IGI ^mURU.arba-ìl-a-a :.	(24) Witness: Arbaʾilāyu, ditto.
r 2525	IGI ^mḫa-am-bi-i ^mdi-di-i	(25) Witness: Ḫambî (and) Dīdî.
r 2626	IGI ^mDINGIR-PAB.MEŠ-SU	(26) Witness: Ilu-aḫḫē-erība.
r 2727	IGI ^mir-na-ni	(27) Witness: Irnani.
r 2828	IGI ^msa-a-si	(28) Witness: Sāsi.
r 2929	IGI ^mtu-li LÚ^*.MUḪALDIM	(29) Witness: Tul(l)i, cook.
r 3030	IGI ^mse-me-ba-ʾ	(30) Witness: Sēʾ-mebāʾ.
r 3131	IGI ^m^dPA-bé-sún	(31) Witness: Nabû-bēssunu.
r 3232	IGI ^me-ri-ši	(32) Witness: Ērišu.
r 3333	IGI ^mEN-AD-PAB	(33) Witness: Bēl-abu-uṣur.
Top		(33) Witness: Bēl-abu-uṣur.
t.e. 34t.e. 34	ITI.GAN UD-09-KÁM	(34) Month Kislīmu (IX), 9th day, eponym year of Aššūr-gārūʾa-nēre.
t.e. 3535	lim-mu
t.e. 3636	^maš-šur-ga-ru-u-a-ni-ri
Left
l.e. 37l.e. 37	IGI ^mARAD-^d15	(37) Witness: Urdu-Issār.

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/P522553/.