Witnesses: TWO LOCATIONS on the tablet:
- In the ATF of the HBTIN texts, witnesses are introduced with the @witnesses discourse marker.
- PNs and filiation statements of witnesses continue until the @colophon discourse marker.
- Names between @colophon marker until the @sealings discourse marker do not belong to the role of witness.
- Names on the edges, indicated by the discourse markers @[top] or [bottom] or [left]
@[top] or [bottom] or [left]
@column [n]
1. un-qa
$ (seal impression designation)
2. [PN of witness]
[Names on the @right edge are principals: buyers, sellers, guarantors, identified by Akkadian terminology. See template for principals.]
- NLP for Witnesses:
- introduced by: {lu2} mu-kin7 or {lu2} mu-kin-nu (= Witnesses:)
witness filiation statements typically fully qualified (PN/FN//LN) OR in form of PN/FN, professional title (introduced by \{lu2\})
In the absence of an ancestor name or a professional designation, a new witness can be recognized by the absence of any marker between the last item of a full filiation and the PN of the next witness, as in: Anu-uballit DUMU sza2 Anu-ab-uter Nidintu-Anu DUMU sza2 Kidin-Anu A Hunzu, where Nidintu-Anu is a new witness PN. (this may be useful for fixing closed person instance) move to an error handling section
- Number of witnesses per edge varies.
- There is a one-to-one correspondence between the names in the witness list and the names that appear on the edges. Therefore, each data-set can be used to supply or confirm information in the other.
LEP to provide professional designations that may occur in filiation statements
Scribes:
- Name (and filiation statement) following discourse marker @colophon is scribe (unless it is royal name)
- Royal names to be defined by authority list
- Royal names followed by term LUGAL (king), LUGAL.MESZ (if co-regency, RN1 u RN2 LUGAL(.MESZ))
- Scribe's name ends before the date begins: ITI (month) \[authority list of 13 month names\] U4 \[n\].KAM MU \[n\].KAM
- information about the date formula.
The names that appear on the right edge are those of the principals (buyers, sellers) and guarantors\/\clearers. In some cases, the name of the mother of a minor principal appears. Female names are always introduced with {f}.
Sometimes additional text appears following or below the name of the principals: (consider below as always = following?)
- role identification:
- seller ({lu2}na-din(-plus))
- clearer ({lu2}mu-mar(-plus))
- buyer ({lu2}ma-hir(-plus))
- family identification
- in the cases where two brothers are typically) the sellers, their seals and name captions appear singly, but they may "share" an additional line of text that reads:
DUMU-MESZ sza2 [father's name]
- in the cases where two brothers are typically) the sellers, their seals and name captions appear singly, but they may "share" an additional line of text that reads: