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BT 103

  • CDLI P522823
  • Collection no.: IM —
  • Excavation no.: BT 103
  • Primary publication(s): BT 103

Provenance

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

Object Details

  • Object type: tablet
  • Material: clay
  • Script: Neo-Assyrian
  • Sealed/Marked: unknown

Text Details

  • Language: Akkadian (Neo-Assyrian)
  • Genre: Legal Transaction
  • Subgenre: debt note (silver)
  • Debtor: Amat-Šamaš-uṣur

Date

  • Period: Neo-Assyrian
  • Reign: Sennacherib (704–681 BC)
  • Dated: yes
  • Date: 682-XI-05 (Šabāṭu 5th, eponymy of Nabû-šarru-uṣur)

BT 103 [debt note (silver)][via atae/imgurenlil]

Obverse
o 1o 1

03 MA.NA KUG.UD SAG.DU

(1) Three minas of silver, capital, belonging to Šumma-ilu, at the disposal of Abat-Šamaš-uṣur. He has taken it as a loan. It shall increase monthly by one shekel per mina.

o 22

ša m[šum]-ma-DINGIR

o 33

ina IGI ma-bat-dUTU-PAB

o 44

ina pu-u-ḫi it-ti-ši

o 55

01 GÍN ina 01 MA.NA ša ITI-šú

o 66

i-rab-bi

o 77

ITI.ZÍZ UD-05-KÁM

(7) Month Šabāṭu 5th day. Eponym year of Nabû-šarru-uṣur. Witness: Nergal-šumu-lēšir. Witness: Mutakkil-Aššur. Witness: Bēl-lē’i. Witness: Mannāya. Witness: Urdu-Allātu. Witness: Mannu-kī-Nīnua.

o 88

lim-mu mdPA-MAN-PAB

Reverse
r 1r 1

IGI mdMAŠ.MAŠ-MU-GIŠ

r 22

IGI mmu-ta-kil--šur

r 33

IGI mEN-ZU

r 44

IGI mman-a.a

r 55

IGI mARAD-da-la-te

r 66

IGI mman-nu-ki-NINA.KI


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/P522823/.