Marqasu 27

CDLI P522572
Collection no.: 2007/88
Primary publication(s): Marqasu 27

Provenance

Provenience: Kahramanmaraş (Marqasu)
Archive: 099 - Miscellaneous

Object Details

Object type: tablet
Material: clay
Script: Neo-Assyrian
Sealed/Marked: yes
Seal/Mark Type: cylinder seal
Number of Sealings:
Seal Owner(s): Zābāyu

Text Details

Language: Akkadian (Neo-Assyrian)
Genre: Legal Transaction
Subgenre: sales document (person)
Seller: Zābāyu
Buyer: Nabû-šēzib
Creditor:

Date

Period: Neo-Assyrian
Reign: Sennacherib (704–681 BC)
Dated: yes
Date: 682-II-15 (Ayyāru 15th, eponymy of Nabû-šarru-uṣur, governor of Marqasu)

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Marqasu 27 [sales document (person)]


Obverse
o 1o 1	NA₄.KIŠIB ^mza-ba-a-a	(1) Seal of Zābāyu, the owner of the people being sold.
o 22	EN UN.MEŠ SUM-an

	cylinder seal impression

o 33	^m^dPA-BÀD-PAB ^m^dPA-PAB-AŠ	(3) Nabû-šēzib has contracted and acquired Nabû-dūru-uṣur, Nabû-aḫu-iddina, his wife, his mother (and) his daughter, in total five people, for two and a half minas of silver. The money is paid completely.
o 44	MÍ-šú AMA-šú DUMU.MÍ-su
o 55	PAB 05 ZI.MEŠ ú-piš-ma ^m^dPA-še-zib
o 66	ina ŠÀ-bi 02 1/2 MA.NA KÙ.BABBAR
o 77	il-qe kas-pu gam-mur ta-din
o 88	UN.MEŠ šu-a-tu-nu za-ár-pu	(8) Those people are purchased and acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit or litigation is void. (Guaranteed) against seizures for 100 days, against crime for all time. Whoever in the future, at any time, lodges a complaint, whether Zābāyu, or his sons, or his grandsons, seeks a lawsuit or litigation against Nabû-šezib or his sons, shall place ten minas of refined silver (and) five minas of pure gold in the lap of Issār, who resides in Marqasu. He shall return the money tenfold to its owners. Should he litigate in his lawsuit, he will not succeed.
o 99	la-qi-u tu-a-ru de-ni DUG₄.DUG₄
o 1010	la-šú ṣib-ti be-e-ni a-na 01 me UD-me
o 1111	sa-ár-tu a-na kal UD.MEŠ
o 1212	man-nu ša ina ur-kiš ma-ti-mé
o 1313	i-za-qu-pa-an-ni lu-u ^mza-ba-a-a
o 1414	lu-u DUMU.MEŠ-šú lu-u DUMU DUMU.MEŠ-šú
o 1515	ša de-ni DUG₄.DUG₄ TA^*
o 1616	^m^dPA-še-zib u DUMU.MEŠ-šú
Bottom
b.e. 17b.e. 17	ub-ta-u-ni
b.e. 1818	10 MA.NA KÙ.BABBAR LUḪ-u
b.e. 1919	05 MA.NA KÙ.GI sak-ru
Reverse
r 20r 20	ina bur-ki ^dIŠ.TAR a-ši-bat URU.BAN-a
r 2121	i-šak-kan kas-pu a-na 10.MEŠ
r 2222	a-na EN.MEŠ-šú ú-ta-ra
r 2323	ina de-ni-šú DUG₄.DUG₄ la TI

r 2424	IGI ^mmar-di-i	(24) Witness: Mardî.
r 2525	IGI ^m^dUTU-ÁG-ZI	(25) Witness: Šamaš-ra’im-ketti.
r 2626	IGI ^msi-ni-i	(26) Witness: Sinî.
r 2727	IGI ^ma-ia LÚ^*.A.BA	(27) Witness: Aplāya, scribe.
r 2828	IGI ^ma-ḫa-ia	(28) Witness: Ahâya.
r 2929	IGI ^m^dAMAR.UTU-LUGAL-a-ni	(29) Witness: Marduk-šarrāni.
r 3030	IGI ^mEN-DÙ-a URU.KÁ.DINGIR	(30) Witness: Bēl-būnā’ī from Babylon.
r 3131	IGI ^mšá-^dPA-SIG₅-iq LÚ^*.x	(31) Witness: Ša-Nabû-damiq.
r 3232	IGI ^msi-qi-^d15	(32) Witness: Sinqi-Issār.
r 3333	IGI ^mra-dú-u-a	(33) Witness: Raduwa.
r 3434	IGI ^mbar-ḫi-DINGIR.MEŠ	(34) Witness: Barḫi-ilāni.
r 3535	IGI ^mKALAG-^dU.GUR	(35) Witness: Dannu-Nergal.
r 3636	IGI ^mtar-ḫu-zu-a-ri	(36) Witness: Tarḫu(n)za-uarri.
r 3737	IGI ^mqí-bit-^d15 LÚ^*.DUMU.SIG	(37) Witness: Qibit-Issar, chariot fighter.
r 3838	IGI ^m^dPA-rém-a-ni LÚ^*.A.BA	(38) Witness: Nabû-rēmanni, keeper of the contract.
Top
t.e. 39t.e. 39	ṣa-bit IM
t.e. 4040	IGI ^mṣal-mu IGI ^mla-qe-pu	(40) Witness: Ṣalmu. Witness: Lā-qēpu.
Left		(40) Witness: Ṣalmu. Witness: Lā-qēpu.
l.e. 41l.e. 41	ITI.GU₄ UD-15-KÁM lim-mu ^m^dPA-MAN-PAB LÚ^*.GAR.KUR URU.mar-BAN	(41) Month Ayyāru (II), 15th day, eponym year of Nabû-šarru-uṣur, governor of Marqasu.
l.e. 4242	IGI ^mḫa-dì-a-ni IGI ^mpir-da-na-ni	(42) Witness: Ḫadiānu. Witness: Pir’-danānu.
l.e. 4343	IGI ^m^dPA-BÀD-ku₈-PAB	(43) Witness: Nabu-dūru-kuṣur.

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/P522572/.