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BT 126

  • CDLI P522842
  • Collection no.: IM —
  • Excavation no.: BT 126
  • Primary publication(s): BT 126

Provenance

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

Object Details

  • Object type: tablet
  • Material: clay
  • Script: Neo-Assyrian
  • Sealed/Marked: yes
  • Seal/Mark Type: stamp seal
  • Number of Sealings:
  • Seal Owner(s): Kēnu-ahu

Text Details

  • Language: Akkadian (Neo-Assyrian)
  • Genre: Legal Transaction
  • Subgenre: sales document (person)
  • Seller: Kēnu-ahu
  • Buyer: Nenê
  • Creditor:

Date

  • Period: Neo-Assyrian
  • Reign: Sennacherib (704–681 BC)
  • Dated: yes, but date partially preserved
  • Date: 688-IX-[...] (Kislīm[u ...]th, eponymy of Iddin-ahhē, of Ṣimirra)

BT 126 [sales document (person)][via atae/imgurenlil]

Obverse
o 1o 1

NA₄.KIŠIB mGIN-PAB

(1) Seal of Kēnu-ahu, owner of the woman being sold. Aya-sūrī, his woman Nenê has contracted, purchased and acquired the woman for two talents and seven minas of copper from Kēnu-ahu. The money is paid completely. That woman is purchased and acquired. Any revocation, lawsuit or litigation is void. Whoever breaks the contract will pay []. He will litigate in his lawsuit, but he will not succeed.

stamp seal impressions
o 22

EN SUM-na fa-a-su-ri

o 33

-šú ú-piš-ma m--e

o 44

ina ŠÀ-bi 02 .UN 07 MA URUDU.MEŠ

o 55

TA* IGI mGIN-PAB i-zi-rip

o 66

i-si-qi kas-pu ga-mur

o 77

[ta]-din šu-a- za-ár-pat

o 88

[la-]-at tu-a-ru de-e-nu

o 99

[DUG₄.DUG₄ la]-a-šú man-nu ša GIL-u-ni

o 1010

[x x x x i]-da-an

o 1111

x [x x x x x x x]

o 1212

ina de-ni-[šú] DUG₄.[DUG₄ x x]

o 1313

la i-laq-[qi]

Reverse
r 1r 1

IGI [mx-x-x-x-x-x]

(r 1) Witness: [PN]. Witness: [PN]. Witness: [PN]. Witness: Rība-[]. Witness: Ub[ru-…]. [Witness: Mannu-li…]. [Witness:] Nabû-bāni-apli, scribe. Witness: Attār-hāyu. Witness: Līt-ili. Month Kislīmu (IX), [n]th day. Eponym year of Iddin-ahhē, (governor) of Ṣimirra.

r 22

IGI mx+[x-x]+x-x+[x-x]

r 33

IGI md[x-x-x-x-x]

r 44

IGI mSU-[x-x-x-x]

r 55

IGI mSUḪUŠ-[x-x-x-x]

r 66

[IGI] mman-nu-li-[x-x-x]

r 77

[IGI] mdPA--A .A.BA

r 88

IGI ma-tar-ḫa-a-ú

r 99

IGI mZU-DINGIR

r 1010

ITI.GAN UD-[x]-KÁM

r 1111

lim-mu mSUM-na-PAB.MEŠ

r 1212

ša KUR.ṣi-mir-ra


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/P522842/.