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BT 115

  • CDLI P522833
  • Collection no.: IM —
  • Excavation no.: BT 115
  • Primary publication(s): BT 115

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

Date

  • Period: Neo-Assyrian
  • Reign: Sennacherib (704–681 BC)
  • Dated: yes
  • Date: 694-IV (Duʾūzu,eponymy of Ilu-ittīya)

BT 115 [debt note][via atae/imgurenlil]

Obverse
o 1o 1

03 MA.NA 03-su KUG.UD

(1) Three and one-third minas of silver by the mina of the king, refined. Fine for the gold of god Mamu, owed by Bātî and Te[].

o 22

ina MA.NA ša MAN qa-li?

o 33

sa-ár-tu ša KUG.GI

o 44

ša dMA. ina IGI

o 55

mba-ti-i mte-[x-x]

o 66

mTA*-10-PAB-te [EN-ŠU].2.MEŠ

(6) Itti-Adad-ahhūte is the guarantor. If they do not give the man with his silver to Nabû-išid-ketti, they will pay the fine tenfold.

o 77

šúm-ma TA* KUG.UD-šú

o 88

a-na m[d]PA-SUḪUŠ-ZI

Reverse
r 1r 1

la i-[din]-nu

r 22

sa-ár-tu a-na 10-te

r 33

ú-šá-lu-mu

r 44

ITI.ŠU lim-mu mDINGIR-KI-ia

(r 4) Month Duʾūzu (IV), eponym year of Ilu-ittīya. Witness: Illatāya. Witness: Kiqillānu. Witness: Nergal-ahu-uṣur.

r 55

IGI mil-at-a-a

r 66

IGI mki-qi-la-nu

r 77

IGI mU.GUR-PAB-PAB


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/P522833/.