Marqasu 15

CDLI P522560
Collection no.: 36.6.07
Primary publication(s): Marqasu 15

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): Iddin-Nergal

Text Details

Language: Akkadian (Neo-Assyrian)
Genre: Legal Transaction
Subgenre: sales document (person)
Seller: Iddin-Nergal
Buyer: Lā-qēpu
Creditor:

Date

Period: Neo-Assyrian
Reign: Esarhaddon (680–669 BC)
Dated: yes
Date: 672-[...]-[...] ([... ...]th, ep[onymy of Nabû-bēlu-uṣur], governor of Dūr-Šarrukēn)

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Marqasu 15 [sales document (person)]


Obverse
o 1o 1	NA₄.⸢KIŠIB⸣ [^mAŠ-U.GUR]	(1) Seal of [Iddin-Nergal], the owner of the peo[ple being sold].
o 22	EN ⸢UN⸣.[MEŠ SUM-ni]
	2 stamp seal impressions
o 33	^m^dIM-rém-a-ni ^m^dUTU-KI-ia LÚ^*.šá-⸢dir⸣-tu	(3) Lā-qēpu has contracted, purchased, and acquired Adad-rēmanni, Šadirtu, Ṣil-Adad, a weaned child, and (the woman) Gurāyawa, his wife, a total of five people, slaves, from Iddin-Nergal for two minas of silver. The money is paid completely. Those people are purchased (and acquired). Any revocation, lawsuit or litigation is void.
o 44	^mṣil-^dIM pir-su ^fgu-ra-ía-u-a
o 55	MÍ-šú PAB 5 ZI.MEŠ LÚ^*.ARAD.MEŠ
o 66	ša ^mAŠ-U.GUR ú-piš-ma ^mla-qe-pu
o 77	TA^* IGI ^mAŠ-U.GUR ina ŠÀ-bi 2 MA.NA
o 88	KÙ.BABBAR i-zi-rip i-si-qi kas-pu
o 99	gam-mur ta-din-ni UN.MEŠ šu-a-te
o 1010	za-ar-pu la-qi-ú tu-a-ru
o 1111	de-e-nu DUG₄.DUG₄ la-áš-šú
o 1212	man-nu šá ina ur-kiš ina ma-te-ma	(12) Whoever in the future, at any time, whether Iddin-Nergal, or his sons, or his grandsons, or his brothers, or his brothers' sons (his nephews), or his governor, or his commander, or the mayor of his city, or his relatives, or the men responsible for his ilku-duties, seeks a lawsuit or litigation against Lā-qēpu, his sons, his grandsons, his brother's sons (nephews), shall deposit twenty minas of refined silver (and) one mina of pure gold in the lap of Nergal, who resides in Marqasu. He shall return the money tenfold to its owners.
o 1313	lu-u ^mAŠ-U.GUR lu-u DUMU.MEŠ-šú lu-u
o 1414	DUMU DUMU.MEŠ-šú lu-u ŠEŠ.MEŠ-šú
o 1515	lu-u DUMU.MEŠ ŠEŠ.MEŠ-šú lu-u LÚ^*.NAM-su
o 1616	lu-u LÚ^.GAR-nu-šú lu-u LÚ^.ḫa-za-nu URU-šú
Bottom
b.e. 17b.e. 17	lu-u mám-ma-nu-šú lu-u LÚ^*.ERIM.MEŠ
b.e. 1818	EN-il-ki-i-šú
Reverse
r 19r 19	šá TA^* ^mla-qe-pi TA DUMU.MEŠ-šú
r 2020	DUMU DUMU.MEŠ-šú ŠEŠ.MEŠ-šú DUMU.MEŠ
r 2121	ŠEŠ.MEŠ-šú de-e-nu DUG₄.DUG₄
r 2222	ub-ta-ʾu-ú-ni 20 MA.NA
r 2323	KÙ.BABBAR LUḪ 01 MA.NA KÙ.GI sak-ru
r 2424	ina bur-ki ^dU.GUR a-šib URU.mar-BAN GAR-an
r 2525	kas-pu ina 10.MEŠ ina EN.MEŠ-šú GUR-ra
r 2626	ina de-ni-šú DUG₄.DUG₄-ma NU TI-qe	(26) Should he litigate in his lawsuit, he will not succeed.
r 2727	IGI ^m^dIGI.DU-šal-lim LÚ^*.EN.NAM	(27) Witness: Palil-šallim, governor.
r 2828	IGI ^m^dMAŠ-DINGIR-a-a LÚ^*.02-i	(28) Witness: Inūrta-ilā'i, deputy governor.
r 2929	IGI ^mEN-KASKAL-KI-ia LÚ^*.GAL-É	(29) Witness: Bēl-Ḫarrān-issē, chief steward.
r 3030	IGI ^mda-šá-nu LÚ^*.mu-kil-PA.MEŠ	(30) Witness: Dašânu, chariot driver.
r 3131	IGI ^me-ṣi-da-a LÚ^*.03.U₅-si	(31) Witness: Ēṣidāyu, third man (on the chariot).
r 3232	IGI ^mḫa-di-ia-nu IGI ^maš-šur-AD-PAB	(32) Witness: Ḫadiānu. Witness: Aššūr-abu-uṣur
r 3333	IGI ^mḫa-am-bi-i IGI ^mig-lu-⸢x⸣	(33) Witness: Ḫambi. Witness: Iglû.
r 3434	IGI ^mi-lu IGI ^mAG-da-⸢x⸣	(34) Witness: Ilu. Witness: Nabû-da[...].
r 3535	IGI ^mia-am-bu IGI ^m[...]	(35) Witness: Yambû. Witness: [...].
r 3636	IGI ^mmar-ba-⸢ni⸣	(36) Witness: Mār-bani.
r 3737	IGI ^mPAB-SI.[SÁ ...]	(37) Witness: Ahu-lēšir.
r 3838	IGI ^m⸢ú^!⸣-[...]	(38) Witness: U[...].
Top		(38) Witness: U[...].
t.e. 39t.e. 39	⸢ITI⸣.[x UD-x-KÁM]	(39) [Month ..., ...th day].
t.e. 4040	⸢lim⸣-[mu ^m^dPA-EN-PAB]	(40) Ep[onym year of Nabû-bēlu-uṣur], governor of Dūr-šarrukēn. Witness: Ḫaya-kānu.
Left
l.e. 41l.e. 41	GAR.KUR URU.BÀD-LUGAL-uk-ka IGI ^mḫa-ia-kà-nu	(41) Witness: Ahu-ilā'i. Witness: Rēmūtu.
l.e. 4242	IGI ^mPAB-DINGIR-a-a ^mre-mu-te

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/P522560/.