Balawat (Imgur-Enlil)

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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)

Views

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/.