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BT 113

  • CDLI P522831
  • Collection no.: IM —
  • Excavation no.: BT 113
  • Primary publication(s): BT 113

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: debt note (silver)
  • Debtor: Šangu-Issar

Date

  • Period: Neo-Assyrian
  • Reign: Sennacherib (704–681 BC)
  • Dated: yes
  • Date: 697-XII-14 (Addaru 14th, eponymy of Nabû-dūru-uṣur)

BT 113 [debt note (silver)][via atae/imgurenlil]

Obverse
11

15 MA.NA URUDU.MEŠ SAG.DU

(1) Fifteen minas of copper, capital of Issār of Arbela, belonging to Šumma-ilu, at the disposal of Šangu-Issār.

22

ša 15 ša URU.arba-ìl

33

ša mšúm-ma-DINGIR ina IGI mSANGA-15

44

ina pu-ḫi it-ti-ši a-na 03-šú-nu

(4) He has taken it as a loan. It will increase by one-third. Month Addaru (XII), 14th day. Eponym year of Nabû-dūru-uṣur.

55

i-rab-bi ITI.ŠE 14-KÁM

66

lim-mu mdPA-BÀD-PAB

Reverse
r 1r 1

IGI mdPA-u-a-a

(r 1) Witness: Nabû’a. Witness: Nabû-bāni-apli. Witness: Balasî. Witness: Ṣalmu. Witness: Mannu-lisamme. Witness: Nabû-šākin-šulmi.

r 22

IGI mdPA--A

r 33

IGI mba-la-si-i

r 44

IGI mṣal-mu

r 55

IGI mman-nu-li-sa-me

r 66

IGI mdPA-šá-kín-DI


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/P522831/.