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BT 123

  • CDLI P522839
  • Collection no.: IM —
  • Excavation no.: BT 123
  • Primary publication(s): BT 123

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 (copper; pledge)

Date

  • Period: Neo-Assyrian
  • Reign: Sennacherib (704–681 BC)
  • Dated: yes
  • Date: 686-VII-19 (Tašrītu 19th, eponymy of Bēl-ēmuranni)

BT 123 [debt note (copper; pledge)][via atae/imgurenlil]

Obverse
o 1o 1

⸢36? MA.NA⸣ URUDU.MEŠ

(1) Thirty-six minas of copper. [...]-šumāya has taken it from Nenê. Bulu-Sē’, his son is placed as a pledge. On the day that he hands over the copper he will redeem his son.

o 22

⸢mx-x⸣-MU-⸢a-a TA*⸣ IGI

o 33

⸢m⸣né-né-e i-ti-ši

o 44

⸢mbu⸣-lu-se-e DUMU-šú

o 55

a-⸢na⸣ šá-par-ti kam-mu-[us]

o 66

ina UD-[me] ša URUDU ⸢SUM⸣-an

o 77

DUMU-šú! ⸢ú⸣-še-ṣa

Reverse
r 1r 1

⸢ITI⸣.DUL UD-19-KÁM

(r 1) Month Tašrītu, 19th day, eponym year of Bēl-ēmuranni. Witness: [...]lānu. Witness: Babāku. [Witness]: Rībāti. [Witness: PN], scribe.

r 22

lim-mu mEN-IGI.LAL-⸢ni?⸣

r 33

IGI m⸢x⸣-la-nu

r 44

IGI mba-⸢ba⸣-ki

r 55

[IGI] m⸢ri⸣-(erasure)-ba-a-te

r 66

[IGI mx-x]+x-i LÚ*.A.⸢BA⸣


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/P522839/.