Balawat (Imgur-Enlil)

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BT 107

CDLI P522827
Collection no.: IM —
Excavation no.: BT 107
Primary publication(s): BT 107

Provenance

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

Object Details

Object type: tablet
Material: clay
Script: Neo-Assyrian
Sealed/Marked: yes
Seal/Mark Type: stamp seal

Text Details

Language: Akkadian (Neo-Assyrian)
Genre: Legal Transaction
Subgenre: lease document (field)

Date

Period: Neo-Assyrian
Reign: Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal
Dated: yes
Date: 671/666-XI-15 (Šabāṭu 15th, eponymy of Kanūnāyu)

Views

BT 107 [lease document (field)][via atae/imgurenlil]


Obverse
o 1o 1	NA₄.⸢KIŠIB⸣ [^mx-x]-⸢x-EN⸣	(1) Seal of […]-Bēl, village manager of Imgur-Enlil, owner of the field being sold.
o 22	LÚ^*.GAL-URU.⸢MEŠ ša⸣ URU.im-gúr-^dBE
	seal impressions
o 33	EN A.ŠÀ SUM-ni
o 44	É 01 ⸢ANŠE⸣ A.ŠÀ ina URU.EN-⸢an^?⸣	(4) An estate of one hectare of land in Adian, adjoining (the estate of) Nūr-de’iq, adjoining the road, adjoining the sustenance field. Šumma-ilu […] has contracted [… from PN], village manager, (and has acquired) the estate of [...] land in exchange for fourteen homers of barley, in lieu of [...] .
o 55	SUḪUR ^mZÁLAG-SIG₅ SUḪUR KASKAL
o 66	SUḪUR ma-ʾu-ti ú-⸢piš-ma⸣
o 77	^mšúm-ma-DINGIR LÚ^.[x-x TA^ IGI]
o 88	^m⸢x-x⸣-[x-x LÚ^*].⸢GAL⸣-URU.MEŠ
o 99	⸢É x⸣ A.ŠÀ ina ŠÀ-bi
o 1010	14 ⸢ANŠE⸣ ŠE.PAD.MEŠ ku-um
o 1111	ŠE ⸢x⸣ x e ša AN ⸢x⸣
o 1212	10 ⸢MU⸣.AN.NA.MEŠ	(12) Ten years. The term is fixed. He will put the barley on the grain heap and redeem his field.
o 1313	e-da-nu šá-kín
Reverse
r 1r 1	ŠE.PAD.MEŠ ina UGU-ḫi [0]
r 22	ta-ra-me i-šak-[kan]
r 33	A.ŠÀ-⸢šu⸣ ú-še-ṣa

r 44	IGI ^mMAN-[x-x-x]-nu	(r 4) Witness: Šarru-[…]nu. Witness: Gula-šumu-lēšir. Witness: Mannu-lisamme. Witness: Innāya. Witness: Nārānu. Witness: Nergal-abu-uṣur, gatekeeper. Witness: Aḫu-lā-amašši. Witness: Dīnānu. Witness: Arbailāya. Witness: Il-dalâ. Witness: Kēnu-ahu. Witness: Amar-Marduk. Month Šabāṭu (XI), 14th day. Eponym year of Danānu.
r 55	IGI ^m^dME.ME-⸢MU-GIŠ⸣
r 66	IGI ^mman-nu-li-sa-[me]
r 77	IGI ^mi-na-a-a
r 88	IGI ^mna-ra-a-nu
r 99	IGI ^m^dU.GUR-AD-PAB ⸢LÚ^*⸣.Ì.[DU₈]
r 1010	IGI ^mPAB-la-maš-⸢ši⸣
r 1111	IGI ^mdi-na-a-⸢nu⸣
r 1212	IGI ^mURU.arba-[ìl]-a-a
r 1313	IGI ^mDINGIR-⸢da-la⸣-a
r 1414	IGI ^mGIN-⸢PAB⸣
r 1515	IGI ^ma-mar-^dŠÚ
r 1616	⸢ITI⸣.ZÍZ ⸢UD⸣-14-⸢KÁM⸣
r 1717	lim-mu ^m⸢da^?⸣-na-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/P522827/.