Balawat (Imgur-Enlil)

001 - Mamu Temple, Room 8 [30]

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BT 118

CDLI P522836
Collection no.: IM —
Excavation no.: BT 118
Primary publication(s): BT 118

Provenance

Provenience: Balawat (Imgur-Enlil)
Archive: 001 - Mamu Temple, Room 8

Object Details

Object type: tablet, envelope
Material: clay
Script: Neo-Assyrian

Text Details

Language: Akkadian (Neo-Assyrian)
Genre: Legal Transaction
Subgenre: judicial document

Date

Period: Neo-Assyrian
Reign: Esarhaddon (680–669 BC)
Dated: yes
Date: 678-V-14 (Abu 14th, eponymy of Nergal-šarru-uṣur)

Views

BT 118 [judicial document][via atae/imgurenlil]


Obverse
o 1o 1	[x x] ^mšúm-mu-DINGIR ⸢x x⸣ [x]	(1) [Lawsuit of] Šumma-ilu, […] the sartinnu has imposed (a judgement) on Dīdu. On the first day of Ulūlu (VI), he will bring the guarantor for the camel and hand him over to Šumma-ilu. If he does not bring (him) and does not hand (him) over, Dīdu will pay in full a fine of […] to Šumma-ilu.
o 22	⸢LÚ^*⸣.sar-tin a-na ^m⸢di⸣-i-⸢du⸣
o 33	e-me-du-u-ni ⸢x x⸣
o 44	⸢ina UD-01-KÁM⸣ ša ITI.⸢KIN⸣ ur-ki-u
o 55	ša ANŠE.gam-mal ú-ba-la
o 66	a-na ^mšúm-mu-DINGIR SUM-an
o 77	šum-ma la na-ṣa ⸢la i-din⸣
o 88	sa-ar-tú ša za [x]+x [x]
o 99	^mdi-i-du a-na [^m]šúm-mu-DINGIR
Reverse
r 1r 1	[ú]-⸢ša⸣-lam
r 22	IGI ^mḫa-ba-as-ti ⸢LÚ^*⸣.GAL-Ì.DU₈	(r 2) Witness: Ḫā-bāštī, chief gatekeeper. Witness: Nabû-nādin-ahi, cohort commander. Witness: Urdu-Issār, ditto. Witness: Il-šumkī, third man (on the chariot). Witness: Pūdītu, Bīssunu. Witness: Gula-šumu-lēšir. Witness: [PN] is the guarantor for the man. […].
r 33	IGI ^m^dPA-AŠ-PAB LÚ^*.GAL-ki-ṣir
r 44	IGI ^mARAD-15 :.
r 55	IGI ^mDINGIR-SAG.KI 03-šú
r 66	IGI ^m⸢pu⸣-di-tú ^mbi-sún
r 77	⸢IGI ^m⸣^dME.ME-MU-GIŠ
r 88	[IGI ^mx]-⸢x⸣-[x] EN-ŠU.[2] ⸢ša⸣ LÚ
r 99	[x x x] UD ⸢ša^?⸣ GAL ⸢x⸣
Envelope

env oenv o	completely broken away

env renv r	beginning broken away
env r 1'1'	⸢ITI⸣.NE UD-14-KÁM lim-mu ^mU.GUR-MAN-PAB	(env r 1) […] Month Abu (V), 14th day, eponym year of Nergal-šarru-uṣur. [Witness:] Ḫā-bāštī, chief gatekeeper. [Witness:] Nabû-nādin-ahi, (from the) cohort. [Witness: …]. […] Bīssunu. […]
env r 2'2'	[IGI] ^m⸢ḫa-ba⸣-as-ti GAL-[Ì].DU₈.MEŠ
env r 3'3'	[IGI] ^m⸢^d⸣[PA]-AŠ-PAB ki-ṣir
env r 4'4'	[x x x x x x x x x x]-ni ^mman-[0]
env r 5'5'	[x x x x x x x x x]-ma
env r 6'6'	[x x x]-ra x+[x x x] šá [x]+x
env r 7'7'	[x x x x]-ḫa-an [x x x]
env r 8'8'	[x x x x x x x] ^mbi-⸢sún⸣
	rest broken away

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/P522836/.