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BT 109

  • CDLI P522829
  • Collection no.: IM —
  • Excavation no.: BT 109
  • Primary publication(s): BT 109

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: receipt (silver)

Date

  • Period: Neo-Assyrian
  • Reign: Ashurbanipal (668–ca. 631 BC)
  • Dated: yes
  • Date: 657 (Eponymy of Lā-abâši)

BT 109 [receipt (silver)][via atae/imgurenlil]

Obverse
o 1o 1

[x] MA.NA KUG.UD

(1) [n] minas of silver, belonging to Kurbailāya, (which was) at the disposal of Nenê. He (= Nenê) has compensated him (= Kurbailāya). They are mutually paid off. Whoever breaks the contract will pay two minas of silver.

o 22

ša mkur?-bi-DINGIR-a-a

o 33

ša IGI m--e

o 44

ú-sa-lim-šú ú-ṭu-[ru]

o 55

TA* IGI a-ḫi-ši

o 66

man-nu ša GIL-u-ni

o 77

02 MA.NA KUG.UD SUM!-an

Reverse
r 1r 1

lim-mu mla-ba-[si]

(r 1) Eponym year of Lâbâši. Witness: Tikasu. Witness: Māzūnu. Witness: Nergal-kabti-[x]. Witness: Mannu-kī-Arbail.

r 22

IGI mti-ku-su

r 33

IGI mma-zu?-nu

r 44

IGI mdU.GUR-BE-[x]

r 55

[IGI] mman-nu-ki-URU.arba-[ìl]


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/P522829/.