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BT 108

  • CDLI P522828
  • Collection no.: IM —
  • Excavation no.: BT 108
  • Primary publication(s): BT 108

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: cylinder seal
  • Number of Sealings:
  • Seal Owner(s): Ammi-rūmu

Text Details

  • Language: Akkadian (Neo-Assyrian)
  • Genre: Legal Transaction
  • Subgenre: debt note (silver)
  • Debtor: Ammi-rūmu

Date

  • Period: Neo-Assyrian
  • Reign: Sennacherib (704–681 BC)
  • Dated: yes
  • Date: 682-I-30 (Nisannu 30th, eponymy of Nabû-šarru-uṣur, governor of Marqasu)

BT 108 [debt note (silver)][via atae/imgurenlil]

Obverse
o 1o 1

NA₄.KIŠIB mam-me-ru-me

(1) Seal of Amme-rūmu.

o 22

19 GÍN KUG.UD SAG.DU

(2) Nineteen shekels of silver, capital, belonging to Ahātû, at the disposal of Amme-rūmu. He has taken it as a loan. It will increase by half a shekel per shekel.

cylinder seal impression
o 33

[ša] ma-ḫa-tu-ú

o 44

ina IGI mam-me-ru-me

o 55

ina pu-u-ḫi it-ti-ši

o 66

a-na 1/2 GÍN-šú i-rab-bi

o 77

ITI.BARAG UD-30-KÁM

(7) Month Nisannu (I), 30th day. Witness: Nabû-šarru-uṣur, from Marqasu. [Witness:] Hasāmû. Witness: [x]-bašti. Witness: Ahî. Witness: Aggarāya. Witness: Bālāqu.

Reverse
r 1r 1

IGI mdPA-LUGAL-PAB ša URU.ma-ra-qa-si

r 22

[IGI] mḫa-sa-me-e

cylinder seal impression
r 33

IGI mx-ba-áš-ti

r 44

IGI ma-ḫi-i IGI mag-ga-ra-a-a

r 55

IGI mba-la-


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/P522828/.