Marqasu 18

CDLI P522563
Collection no.: Trade 1998
Primary publication(s): Marqasu 18

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): Mušēzib-Marduk

Text Details

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

Date

Period: Neo-Assyrian
Reign: Ashurbanipal (668–ca. 631 BC)
Dated: yes
Date: 665-III-09 (Simānu 9th, eponymy of Mannu-kī-[šarri], royal eu[nuch])

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Marqasu 18 [sales document (person)]


Obverse
o 1o 1	NA₄.KIŠIB [^mmu-še-zib-DINGIR]	(1) Seal of [Mušēzib-Marduk], the owner of the woman [being sold].
o 22	EN ⸢MÍ⸣ [SUM-ni]

	2 stamp seal impressions

o 33	^fka-zu-ub-tú DUMU.MÍ-su	(3) Kazubtu, his daughter – Lā-qēpu, has contracted, purchased and bought her from Mušēzib-ilu for half a mina of silver. The money is paid completely. This woman is purchased and acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit or litigation is void. (Guaranteed against) seizures of epilepsy for 100 days (and against) fraud for all time. Whoever in the future, at any time, whether Mušēzib-ilu or his sons or his grandsons, seeks a lawsuit or litigation against Lā-qēpu, his sons and his grandsons, shall return the money tenfold to its owners. Should he litigate in his lawsuit, he will not succeed.
o 44	⸢ú⸣-piš-ma ^mla-qe-pu
o 55	TA^* IGI ^mmu-še-zib-DINGIR
o 66	ina ŠÀ 1/2 MA.NA KÙ.BABBAR i-zi-rip
o 77	i-si-qi kas-pu gam-mur
o 88	ta-din MÍ šu-a-tú za-ar-pat
o 99	la-qi-at tu-a-ru de-e-nu
o 1010	DUG₄.DUG₄ la-áš-šú be-en
o 1111	ṣib-tú ina 01 me UD-me sa-ár-tú
o 1212	ina kàl UD.MEŠ man-nu šá ina ur-kiš
o 1313	ina ma-te-ma lu-u ^mmu-še-zib-DINGIR
o 1414	lu-u DUMU.MEŠ-šú lu-u [DUMU DUMU].MEŠ-šú
o 1515	ša TA^* ^mla-⸢qe⸣-[pu]
o 1616	ù DUMU.MEŠ-šú
o 1717	DUMU DUMU.MEŠ-šú
o 1818	de-e-nu DUG₄.DUG₄
o 1919	ub-ta-ʾu-ú-ni
o 2020	kas-pu ina 10.MEŠ ina EN.MEŠ-šú
o 2121	ú-ta-ra ina de-ni-šú
o 2222	DUG₄.DUG₄-ma là TI

o 2323	IGI ^m^dPA-EN-GIN 02-i	(23) Witness: Nabû-bēlu-kaʾʾin, deputy (governor).
o 2424	IGI ^mEN-KASKAL-KI-ía GAL-É	(24) Witness: Bēl-Ḫarrān-issēʾa, major-domo.
o 2525	IGI ^m^dPA-ZÁLAG-ir	(25) Witness: Nabû-nammir.
o 2626	IGI ^mde-ni-i	(26) Witness: Denî.
o 2727	IGI ^m10-A-AŠ	(27) Witness: Adad-aplu-iddina.
o 2828	IGI ^m^dPA-PAB.MEŠ-SU	(28) Witness: Nabû-aḫḫē-erība.
o 2929	IGI ^m30-PAB-AŠ	(29) Witness: Sîn-aḫu-iddina.
o 3030	IGI ^mab-ni-i	(30) Witness: Abnî.
o 3131	IGI ^m15-BÀD	(31) Witness: Issār-dūrī.
o 3232	IGI ^m^dPA-SU	(32) Witness: Nabû-erība.
o 3333	ITI.SIG₄ UD-09-⸢KAM⸣	(33) Month Simānu (III), 9th day, eponym year of Mannu-kī-šarri, royal eunuch.
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t.e. 34t.e. 34	lim-mu ^mman-nu-⸢ki⸣-[MAN]
t.e. 3535	LÚ^*.⸢SAG⸣-[MAN]

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/P522563/.