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BT 117

  • CDLI P522835
  • Collection no.: IM —
  • Excavation no.: BT 117
  • Primary publication(s): BT 117

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

Date

  • Period: Neo-Assyrian
  • Reign: Sennacherib (704–681 BC)
  • Dated: yes, but date partially preserved
  • Date: 686-VII-01 (Tašrītu 1st, eponymy of B[ēl-ēmur]anni)

BT 117[via atae/imgurenlil]

Obverse
o 1o 1

NA₄.KIŠIB mman-nu-ki-URU.arba-ìl *.A.BA

(1) Seal of Mannu-kī-Arbail, scribe.

o 22

UD-mu ša qa-ri-te ša URU.arba-ìl

(2) One day of the banquet of Arbela, with the barley rations of the king, belonging to Mamu-iqbi. (He will pay) on the second day of the month Nisannu (I). If he does not pay, he will pay twelve minas of silver by the mina of the king. Month Tašrītu (VII), 1st day, eponym year of Bēl-ēmuranni.

o 33

a-di ŠE.PAD.MEŠ MAN ša mMA.-iq-bi

o 44

UD?-02-KÁM? ša ITI.BARAG MAŠ šúm-ma i-din

o 55

12 MA.NA KUG.UD ina MA.NA-e

o 66

ša MAN i-dan [ITI].DU₆? UD-01-KÁM

o 77

lim-mu mdEN-[IGI.LAL]-an-ni

Reverse
r 1r 1

mdPA-PAB- *.A.BA-É.GAL

(r 1) Nabû-ahu-iddina, palace scribe, (is) the guarantor for banquet of Arbela. Witness: Bābilāya. Witness: Abdâ, chariot driver of the palace scribe. Witness: Nārānu. (Witness:) Tikasu. Witness: Ammi-Būru.

r 22

EN-ŠU.2.MEŠ ša UD-mu

r 33

ša qa-ri-te ša URU.arba-ìl

r 44

IGI m.DINGIR-a-a

r 55

IGI mab-da-a *.mu-kil-PA.MEŠ

r 66

ša *.A.BA-É.GAL

r 77

IGI mna-ra-nu mti-ku-su

r 88

IGI mam-bur


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/P522835/.