Marqasu 10

CDLI P522555
Collection no.: MDA 364
Primary publication(s): Marqasu 10

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): Wandî; Ṭūrī-rāme

Text Details

Language: Akkadian (Neo-Assyrian)
Genre: Legal Transaction
Subgenre: sales document (person)
Seller: Wandî; Ṭūrī-rāme
Buyer: Ubru-Nergal
Creditor:

Date

Period: Neo-Assyrian
Reign: Aššur-etel-ilani (ca. 630–627 BC)
Dated: yes
Date: 629*-XII-10 (Addaru 10th, eponymy of Nabû-šarru-uṣur, palace scribe)

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Marqasu 10 [sales document (person)]


Obverse
o 1o 1	NA₄.KIŠIB ^mú-an-di-i	(1) Seal of Wandî.
o 22	NA₄.KIŠIB ^mṭu-ri-ra-me DUMU-šú	(2) Seal of Ṭūrī-rāme, his son.
o 33	PAB 02 LÚ^*-e EN MÍ SUM-an-nu	(3) A total of two men, the owners of the woman being sold.

	2 stamp seal impressions

o 44	[...]
o 55	[ú-piš-ma ^m]⸢SUḪUŠ⸣-U.GUR	(5) [Ubru]-Nergal has contracted and acquired [..., their female slave], from these men for thirty shekels of silver. The money is paid completely. That woman is purchased and acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit or litigation is void.
o 66	TA^* ⸢IGI⸣ LÚ^*.<MEŠ> an-nu-tú
o 77	ina ŠÀ 30 GÍN KÙ.BABBAR TI
o 88	kas-pi gam-mur ta-⸢din⸣
o 99	MÍ šu-a-te zar₄-pu
o 1010	la-qi-i-u
o 1111	tu-a-ru de-e-nu
o 1212	DUG₄.DUG₄ la-áš-šú
o 1313	man-nu ša ina ur-kiš	(13) Whoever in the future, at any time, violates (the contract), shall return the money tenfold to its owner. Should he litigate in his lawsuit, he will not succeed.
Bottom
b.e. 14b.e. 14	ina ma-te-eʾ-ma
b.e. 1515	ib-bal-kàt-u-ni
b.e. 1616	kas-pi ina 10.MEŠ
b.e. 1717	ina EN.MEŠ-šú u-GUR
Reverse
r 18r 18	ina de-ni-šú DUG₄.DUG₄
r 1919	la i-laq-qe
r 2020	IGI ^m^dAMAR.UTU-NUMUN-DÙ EN.NAM	(20) Witness: Marduk-zēru-ibni, governor.
r 2121	IGI ^m^dPA-BÀD-IGI-ía 02-i	(21) Witness: Nabû-dūr-pānīya, deputy.
r 2222	IGI ^máš-ḫi-ri ⸢LÚ^*!?⸣.GAL-É^!	(22) Witness: Ašḫīri, major-domo.
r 2323	IGI ^m^dPA-bé-sún	(23) Witness: Nabû-bēssunu.
r 2424	IGI ^mAPIN-eš-DINGIR	(24) Witness: Ēreš-ili.
r 2525	⸢IGI ^mURU.KASKAL^!⸣-a-a	(25) Witness: [Ḫarr]ānāyu.
r 2626	IGI ^mki-ṣir-i	(26) Witness: Kiṣirî.
r 2727	IGI ^mEN-MAN-PAB	(27) Witness: Bēl-šarru-uṣur.
r 2828	IGI ^mna-ni-i	(28) Witness: Nānî.
r 2929	IGI ^m^d30-MU-AŠ	(29) Witness: Sîn-šumu-iddina.
r 3030	IGI ^mse-ma-ba-i	(30) Witness: Sēʾ-mabâʾ.
r 3131	ITI.ŠE UD-mu-10-KÁM	(31) Month Addaru (XII), 10th day, eponym year of Nabû-šarru-uṣur, palace scribe.
Top
t.e. 32t.e. 32	lim-mu ^m^dPA-MAN-PAB
t.e. 3333	A.BA-KUR
Left
l.e. 34l.e. 34	IGI ^ma-a-da-di IGI ^msi-i-ri	(34) Witness: Aya-dādi. Witness: Sīri.

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, A. Fıstıkçı and S.F. Adalı, "Two 7th-Century BCE Neo-Assyrian Slave Sale Records from Marqasi (Kahramanmaraş) in a Collection at Gaziantep," Altorientalische Forschungen 42 (2015): 173-183. The online edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/atae/P522555/.