Balawat (Imgur-Enlil)

001 - Mamu Temple, Room 8 [30]

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BT 128

CDLI P522844
Collection no.: IM —
Excavation no.: BT 128
Primary publication(s): BT 128

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: debt note (silver; pledge)
Debtor: Ilu-šumki

Date

Period: Neo-Assyrian
Reign: Sennacherib (704–681 BC)
Dated: yes, but date partially preserved
Date: 682-XI-16 (Šabāṭu 16th, eponymy of Nabû-šarru-[uṣur, of] Marqasu)

Views

BT 128 [debt note (silver; pledge)][via atae/imgurenlil]


Obverse
o 1o 1	1/2 MA.NA KUG.UD SAG^?.DU^? ša^? ^d⸢15 arba⸣-[ìl]	(1) Half a mina of silver, capital of Issār of Arbela, belonging to Il-šumkī, at the deposal of Ulūlāya. He has taken it as a loan. Nanî, son of Ulūlāya, is placed as a pledge for the half mina. (If) he dies or flees by water, oil, snake (or) scorpion, it is the responsibility of his owner (i.e. Ulūlāya).
o 22	ša ^mDINGIR-SAG.KI ina IGI ^mITI.KIN-a-a
o 33	ina pu-u-ḫi it-ti-ši
o 44	^mna-ni-i DUMU^? ^mu^!-⸢lu^!-la^!⸣-[a-a]
o 55	a-na šá-par-ti kam^!-mu^!-su^!
o 66	1/2 GÍN KUG.UD GAR ÚŠ^! ZÁḪ^!
o 77	ina me-e ina šá-mì-ni
o 88	MUŠ GÍR.TAB ina ⸢UGU EN⸣-šú
o 99	⸢ITI⸣.ZÍZ ⸢UD⸣-[x-KÁM]	(9) Month Šabāṭu (XI), [nth] day. Eponym year of Nabû-šarru-uṣur (governor) of Marqasu. Witness: Ahu-iddina. Witness: Adi-ilu. Witness: Idrī-ahā’ū. Witness: Barīku. Witness: Nabû-šumu-rabbi.
Reverse
r 1r 1	lim-mu ^m^dPA-⸢MAN⸣-[PAB]
r 22	[ša] URU.mar-qa-si
r 33	IGI ^mPAB-AŠ IGI ^m⸢a⸣-di^?-⸢lu⸣
r 44	IGI ^m⸢a⸣-da-ra-ḫa-ú
r 55	IGI ^m⸢ba-ri-ku⸣
r 66	IGI ^m^dPA-MU-ra-bi
Envelope

env oenv o	beginning broken away
env o 1'1'	[x x x x x x]-bi ^m⸢na-ni-i⸣	(env o 1) […] Nanî, son of Ulūlāya, is placed and retained as a pledge. ((If) he dies or flees) by water, oil, snake (or) scorpion, it is the responsibility of his owner (i.e. Ulūlāya). Il-šumkī shall see his silver. On the day that he delivers the silver, the man will go out. Month Šabāṭu (XI), 16th day.
env o 2'2'	⸢DUMU^?⸣ ^m⸢ITI⸣.KIN-a-a a-na šá-par-ti [0]
env o 3'3'	kam-mu-su ma-aḫ-ri ina me-e [0]
env o 4'4'	⸢Ì⸣.MEŠ MUŠ GÍR.TAB ina UGU EN-šú
env o 5'5'	⸢^mDINGIR⸣-SAG.KI KUG.UD-šú i-da-gal
env o 6'6'	ina UD-me ša KUG.UD ú-še-rab-a-ni
env o 7'7'	LÚ ú-ṣa ⸢ITI⸣.ZÍZ UD-16-KÁM [0]
	rest broken away

env renv r	completely 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/P522844/.