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BT 105

  • CDLI P522825
  • Collection no.: IM —
  • Excavation no.: BT 105
  • Primary publication(s): BT 105

Provenance

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

Object Details

  • Object type: tablet
  • Material: clay
  • Script: Neo-Assyrian

Text Details

  • Language: Akkadian (Neo-Assyrian)
  • Genre: Legal Transaction
  • Subgenre: receipt

Date

  • Period: Neo-Assyrian
  • Reign: Sennacherib (704–681 BC)
  • Dated: yes
  • Date: 687-V-01 (Abu 1st, eponymy of Sennacherib)

BT 105 [receipt][via atae/imgurenlil]

Obverse
o 1o 1

[NA₄].KIŠIB mša-la-15-man-nu

(1) Seal of Ša-lā-Issār-mannu. [] Samsi-yada’.

o 22

[x x]+x msam-si-ia-da-a

o 33

x 1/2 MA.NA [x] GÍN KUG.UD

(3) Šumma-ilu has paid n and a half minas and [n] shekels of silver to Ša-lā-Issār-mannu. He has released Samsi-yada’ from his presence. Whoever breaks the contract shall pay five minas of silver.

o 44

mšum-ma-DINGIR a-na mša-la-15-man-nu

o 55

it-ti-din msam-si-ia-da-a

o 66

TA* IGI-šú ú-se-ṣi?-a

o 77

man-nu ša GIL-u-ni

Reverse
r 1r 1

05 MA.NA KUG.UD SUM-an

r 22

ITI.NE UD-01 lim-me m30-PAB-SU

(r 2) Month Abu, 1st day. Eponym year of Sîn-aḫḫē-erība. Witness: Nabû’a, chariot fighter. Witness: Bānāya. Witness: Yaūda. Witness: Dīnānu.

r 33

IGI mdPA-u-a DUMU-SIG

r 44

IGI m-ia IGI mia-u-da

r 55

IGI mdi-nu-a-nu


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/P522825/.