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BT 112

  • CDLI P522830
  • Collection no.: IM —
  • Excavation no.: BT 112
  • Primary publication(s): BT 112

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: fingernail
  • Seal Owner(s): Sama’

Text Details

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

Date

  • Period: Neo-Assyrian
  • Dated: yes, but date completely destroyed

BT 112 [lease document (field)][via atae/imgurenlil]

Obverse
o 1o 1

[ṣu]-pur msa-[ma-a]

(1) Fingernail of Sama', owner of the field being sold.

o 22

[EN] A.ŠÀ ta-da-ni

fingernail impressions
o 33

[x x] ANŠE A.ŠÀ SUḪUR mDÙG.GA-IM!-dPA?

(3) [] hectares of land, adjoining (the estate of) Ṭāb-šār-Nabû, adjoining (the estate of) Šamaš-kēnu-dugul, adjoining the king’s road to Bit-Sangi

o 44

[SUḪUR m]dUTU-GIN-du-gul

o 55

[SUḪUR] KASKAL-MAN ina URU.É-*.SANGA

o 66

[ú]-piš-ma mSU-ba-a-a

(6) Rībāya has contracted and acquired it to clear (for cultivation) from Sama', in exchange for one mina and five shekels of copper. [He will have the usufruct of the field for] ten crop years and ten fallow years. Twenty years. The term is fixed. He will put the silver on the grain heap and redeem his field.

o 77

[TA] IGI msa-ma-a

o 88

[ina] ŠÀ 01 MA.[NA] 05? [GÍN] URUDU.MEŠ

o 99

a-na pa-ṭu-ri i-si!-

o 1010

[10] me-ri-[še] 10 ka-rap-ḫi

o 1111

[x] 20 MU.AN.NA e-da-nu

o 1212

[šá]-kín kas-pu a-na UGU-ḫi

o 1313

[ŠE.ta]-ra-me i-šá-kan

o 1414

[A.ŠÀ-šú] i-še-ṣa


o 1515

[IGI m]dAMAR.[UTU-x-x]-ni

(15) Witness: Marduk-[...]ni. Witness: [...]. [...]

o 1616

[IGI x] 02? KAR.MU-a-a

Reverse
runintelligible, no copy


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/P522830/.