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BT 100

  • CDLI P522820
  • Collection no.: IM —
  • Excavation no.: BT 100
  • Primary publication(s): BT 100

Provenance

  • Provenience: Balawat (Imgur-Enlil)
  • Archive: 001 - Mamu Temple, Room 8

Object Details

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

Text Details

  • Language: Akkadian (Neo-Assyrian)
  • Genre: Legal Transaction
  • Subgenre: debt note (copper)
  • Debtor: Dādî

Date

  • Period: Neo-Assyrian
  • Reign: Sennacherib (704–681 BC)
  • Dated: yes
  • Date: 689-VIII-15 (Arahsamna 15th, eponymy of Gihilu)

BT 100 [debt note (copper)][via atae/imgurenlil]

Obverse
o 1o 1

43 MA.NA URUDU.MEŠ SAG.DU

(1) Forty-three minas of copper, capital, belonging to Tikasu, at the disposal of Dādî. He has taken it as a loan.

o 22

ša mti-ku-su

o 33

ina IGI mda-di-i

o 44

ina pu-u-ḫi it-ti-ši

o 55

a-na 1/2 MA.NA-šú-nu GAL-u

(5) It will increase by fifty percent per mina. Month Araḫsamna (VIII), 15th day, eponym year of Gihilu. Mamu-iqbi is guarantor for the copper.

o 66

ITI.APIN UD-15-KÁM

o 77

lim-mu mgi-i-lu

o 88

mdMA.-iq-bi

o 99

EN-ŠU.2.MEŠ ša URUDU.MEŠ

Reverse
r 1r 1

IGI mbi-su-nu

(r 1) Witness: Bīssunu. Witness: Nārānu. Witness: Huddāya. Witness: Ezbu. Witness: Bābilāya. Witness: Ahu-iddina.

r 22

IGI mna-ra-a-nu

r 33

IGI mḫu-da-a.a

r 44

IGI mez-bu

r 55

IGI m.DINGIR-a

r 66

IGI mPAB-

r 77

IGI mri-ba-a-te

Envelope
env o 1env o 1

[NA₄].KIŠIB mda-di-i

(env o 1) Seal of Dādî. [Forty-three] minas of copper, capital, Dādî has taken it as a loan from Ti[kasu], [eun]uch of Sîn-[]. It will inc[rease by] fifty percent per mina.

env o 22

[43] MA.NA URUDU.MEŠ SAG.DU

env o 33

[m]da-di-i TA* IGI mti-[ku-su]

env o 44

[].SAG? ša md30-[x-x-x]

blank space of one line
env o 55

ina pu-u-ḫi it-[ti-ši]

env o 66

[a-na] 1/2 MA.NA-šú-nu i-rab-[bi-u]

env o 77

ITI.APIN UD-14-KÁM

(env o 7) Month Araḫsamna (VIII), 15th day. [Epon]ym year of Gihilu. Mamu-iqbi is guarantor for the copper.

Bottom
env b.e. 8env b.e. 8

[lim]-mu mgi-i-lu

env b.e. 99

mdMA.-iq-bi

env r 1env r 1

EN-ŠU.2.MEŠ ša URUDU.MEŠ

env r 22

[IGI] mna-ra-nu

(env r 2) [Witness:] Nārānu. [Witness: ]ssunu. [Witness: Huddā]ya. Witness: Ezbu [Witness: Rīb]āte.

env r 33

[IGI mbi]-su-nu

env r 44

[IGI mḫu-da]-a.a

blank space of two lines
env r 55

IGI mez-bu

env r 66

[IGI mri-ba]-a-te


Adapted from Barbara Parker, “Tablets from the Temple of Mamu at Balawat,” Iraq 25 (1963): 86–103, 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. The online edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/atae/P522820/.