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001 - Mamu Temple, Room 8 [30]

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BT 127

  • CDLI P522843
  • Collection no.: IM —
  • Excavation no.: BT 127
  • Primary publication(s): BT 127

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 (silver, copper)
  • Debtor: Aššur-ašarēd

Date

  • Period: Neo-Assyrian
  • Reign: Sennacherib (704–681 BC)
  • Dated: yes, but date partially preserved
  • Date: 692-[...]-01 ([...] 1st, [eponymy of Zazā]ya)

BT 127 [debt note (silver, copper)][via atae/imgurenlil]

Obverse
o 1o 1

02 ⸢MA⸣.NA KUG.UD SAG.DU

(1) Two minas of silver, capital, by (the mina) of the king (and) one talent of minas (i.e. 60 minas) of copper, capital. Aššur-ašarēd has taken it as a loan from Šumma-ilu. The silver will increase monthly by two shekels. The copper will increase monthly by two minas. [Month: …], 1st day. [Eponym year of Zazā]ya.

o 22

ina? ⸢ša⸣ LUGAL

o 33

01 GÚ.UN MA.NA URUDU.ME SAG.DU

o 44

maš-šur-MAŠ TA* IGI

o 55

mšúm-ma-DINGIR ina pu-u-⸢ḫi⸣

o 66

i-ti-ši ⸢KUG.UD⸣ 02 ⸢GÍN.ME?⸣

o 77

⸢ša ITI⸣-šú i-ra-bi

o 88

URUDU.MEŠ 02 MA.NA ša ITI-šú

Reverse
r 1r 1

⸢i⸣-ra-bi-ú

r 22

[ITI.x]+x UD-01-KÁM

r 33

[lim-mu mza-za]-ia

r 44

[IGI mx-x-x-x] IGI mdU.GUR-MAŠ

(r 4) [Witness: PN]. Witness: Nergal-ašarēd. [Witness: Nabû-]bāni-apli. [Witness: Nā]rānu. [Witness:] Nabû-šākin-šulmi.

r 55

[IGI mdPA]-DÙ-A

r 66

[IGI mna]-⸢ra⸣-nu

r 77

[IGI md]⸢PA!-šá!⸣-kín-DI

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/P522843/.