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BT 114

  • CDLI P522832
  • Collection no.: IM —
  • Excavation no.: BT 114
  • Primary publication(s): BT 114

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
  • Number of Sealings:

Text Details

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

Date

  • Period: Neo-Assyrian
  • Reign: Sennacherib (704–681 BC)
  • Dated: yes
  • Date: 697-I-02 (Nisannu 2nd, eponymy of Nabû-dūru-uṣur)

BT 114 [debt note (silver)][via atae/imgurenlil]

Obverse
o 1o 1

01 MA.NA KUG.UD ša LUGAL

(1) One mina of silver (by the mina) of the king - Inūrta-abu-uṣur has taken it as a loan from Hutuni.

o 22

mdMAŠ-AD-PAB

o 33

TA* IGI mḫu?-tu-ni

o 44

ina pu-u-ḫi i-ti-ši

o 55

02 GÍN ša ITI-šú

(5) It will increase by two shekels per month. Month Nisannu (I), 2nd day. Eponym year of Nabû-dūru-uṣur.

o 66

GAL-bi ITI.BARAG UD-02-KÁM

Reverse
r 1r 1

lim-mu mdPA-BÀD-PAB

r 22

IGI mšum-ma-DINGIR

(r 2) Witness: Šumma-ilu. Witness: Mannu-lisamme. Witness: Ṭāb-šār-Nabû. Witness: Nabû’a. Witness: Šamaš-abu-uṣur. Witness: Balasî.

r 33

IGI mman-nu-li-sa!-me

r 44

IGI mDÙG.GA-IM-dPA

r 55

IGI mdPA-u-a

r 66

IGI mdUTU-AD-PAB

r 77

IGI mba-la-si-i


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/P522832/.