Marqasu 23

CDLI P522568
Collection no.: 36.24.07
Primary publication(s): Marqasu 23

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): Gabbu-āmur; Nabû-nammir

Text Details

Language: Akkadian (Neo-Assyrian)
Genre: Legal Transaction
Subgenre: sales document (person)
Seller: Gabbu-āmur; Nabû-nammir
Buyer: Lā-qēpu
Creditor:

Date

Period: Neo-Assyrian
Reign: Ashurbanipal (668–ca. 631 BC)
Dated: yes
Date: 658-[...]-24 ([...] 24th, eponymy of Ša-Nabû-šūnu)

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Marqasu 23 [sales document (person)]


Obverse
o 1o 1	NA₄.KIŠIB ^mgab-bu-a-mur LÚ.02-i	(1) Seal of Gabbu-āmur, deputy.
o 22	NA₄.KIŠIB ^m^dPA-ZÁLAG-ir : A.BA	(2) Seal of Nabû-nammir, scribe from Marqasu,
o 33	TA^* URU.mar-qa-si	(2) Seal of Nabû-nammir, scribe from Marqasu,
o 44	EN UN.MEŠ SUM-ni	(4) the owner(s) of the people being sold.

	2 stamp seal impressions

o 55	^f^dna-na-a-a-bé-e-ʾe	(5) Nanāya-bē’ (and) Šamši-ilat-wašṭi, in total two women, their slave women, whom they gave to Lā-qēpu instead of two (women) from among the people of (the woman) Ayate.
o 66	^fUTU-DINGIR-⸢át⸣-ú-a-áš-ṭì
o 77	PAB 02 MÍ.MEŠ ⸢GÉME⸣-šú-nu
o 88	ša a-na ^mla-qe-pi
o 99	ku-um 02 TA UN ^fa-a-te
o 1010	i-di-nu-u
o 1111	^mgab-bu-a-mur ^m^d⸢PA⸣-ZÁLAG-ir	(11) Gabbu-āmur (and) Nabû-nammir (say the following): "Their! ... [...]."
o 1212	ma-a kas-pi-ši-x [x-x]	(12) [...] (and) a half minas of silver according to the [mina] of Carchem[ish ...].
o 1313	[x] 1/2 MA.NA KÙ.BABBAR ina [ma-né-e]
o 1414	⸢ša⸣ KUR.gar-ga-⸢miš⸣
o 1515	[...] ⸢x-x⸣ [...]
Reverse
r 1r 1	[...] ⸢x-x⸣ [...]
r 22	[ṣib-tú] ina 01 me [UD.MEŠ]	(r 2) (Guaranteed) against [seizures] for 100 [days], against [cri]me [for all time].
r 33	[sa]-⸢ar⸣-tú ina [kàl UD.MEŠ]
r 44	man-nu ša ina ur-[kiš]	(r 4) Whoever in the fut[ure], at any time, vi[olates] (the contract), shall place ten minas of silver (and) two minas of gold in the lap of Issār, who resides in Nineveh. He shall return the money tenfold to its owners. Should he litigate in his lawsuit, he will not succeed.
r 55	ina ma-ti-ma i-⸢bal⸣-[kàt-ʾu-u-ni]
r 66	10 MA.NA KÙ.BABBAR 02 MA.NA ⸢KÙ.GI⸣
r 77	ina bur-ki ^dIŠ.TAR a-ši-bat
r 88	NINA.KI i-šak-kan
r 99	kas-pi ana 10.MEŠ ina EN.MEŠ-šú
r 1010	ú-⸢GUR⸣
r 1111	ina de-ni-šú DUG₄.DUG₄
r 1212	la i-laq-qe

r 1313	IGI ^m⸢BA⸣-15 LÚ.GAR-nu šá-BAN	(r 13) Witness: Iqīša-Issār, prefect of bowmen.
r 1414	IGI ^mdu-la-a-ni ⸢GAL-ki⸣-ṣir	(r 14) Witness: Dulāni, cohort commander.
r 1515	IGI ^mkur-mas-a-a :	(r 15) Witness: Kurmasā, ditto.
r 1616	IGI ^mba-ni-ia ^mPAB-šu-nu	(r 16) Witness: Bānāya (and) Aḫūšunu.
r 1717	IGI ^m^dPA-TI-su-E A ^mre-šú	(r 17) Witness: Nabû-balāssu-iqbi, son of Rēšu.
r 1818	IGI ^m^dIM-PAB-ir šá-ŠIDIM-u	(r 18) Witness: Adad-naṣir, builder.
r 1919	IGI ^mza-bi-i-nu šá-ŠIDIM-u	(r 19) Witness: Zabīnu, builder.
r 2020	IGI ^mman-nu-ir-⸢i⸣ GAL-da-a-a-li	(r 20) Witness: Mannu-īri, chief scout.
Top		(r 20) Witness: Mannu-īri, chief scout.
t.e. 21t.e. 21	IGI ^maš-šur-KAR-⸢ir A ^m^d⸣PA-šal-lim-ši-nu	(r 21) Witness: Aššur-eṭir, son of Nabû-šallimšinu.
t.e. 2222	IGI ^mše-lu-bu-ia IGI ^mna-⸢na⸣-a-a	(r 22) Witness: Šēlebuya. Witness: Nanāya.
t.e. 2323	⸢IGI⸣ ^msum-a-ni LÚ.TIN	(r 23) Witness: Sumānu, builder.
Left		(r 23) Witness: Sumānu, builder.
l.e. 24l.e. 24	[IGI ^m^dx]-⸢tab⸣-ni-PAB IGI ^mKASKAL-a-a DAM.GÀR IGI ^mmì-iš-ti-ḫu	(r 24) Witness: [...]-tabni-uṣur. Witness: Ḫarrānāyu, merchant. Witness: Mištiḫu.
l.e. 2525	[IGI ^mx]-⸢ḫu^?⸣-sa-me LÚ.DAM.GÀR IGI ^msa-an-da-ḫu-wa : :	(r 25) Witness: [...]ḫusame, merchant. Witness: Sanda-ḫuwa, ditto.
l.e. 2626	[ITI.x UD]-24-KÁM lim-mu ^mšá-^dPA-šú-nu IGI ^m^dPA-SIG₅-iq	(l.e. 26) [Month ...], 24th day, eponym year of Ša-Nabû-šūnu. Witness: Nabû-damiq, scribe.
l.e. 2727	A.BA

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 a preliminary version prepared by Faruk Akyüz. The online edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/atae/P522568/.