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BT 138

  • CDLI P522847
  • Collection no.: IM —
  • Excavation no.: BT 138
  • Primary publication(s): BT 138

Provenance

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

Object Details

  • Object type: tablet
  • Material: clay
  • Script: Neo-Assyrian
  • Sealed/Marked: unknown

Text Details

  • Language: Akkadian (Neo-Assyrian)
  • Genre: Legal Transaction
  • Subgenre: debt note

Date

  • Period: Neo-Assyrian
  • Reign: Esarhaddon (680–669 BC)
  • Dated: yes
  • Date: 679-VIII-20 (Arahsamna 20[th], eponymy of Itti-Adad-anēnu)

BT 138 [debt note][via atae/imgurenlil]

Obverse
obeginning broken away
o 1'1'

[x x x] U₈ [x x x x]+x-ri-a-te

(1) [] belonging to Rigim-Aššur, at the disposal of Urdu-Mullissu, at the disposal of Amar-Marduk (and) at the disposal of Qīšāya.

o 2'2'

ša mrig-me--šur

o 3'3'

ina IGI mARAD-dNIN.LÍL

o 4'4'

ina IGI ma-mar-dŠÚ

o 5'5'

ina IGI mqi-šá-a-a

o 6'6'

a-du 20? UD.MEŠ 02 MA.NA KUG.UD

(6) He shall pay two minas of silver within twenty days. If he does not pay, he will give the sheep together with the []. Month Araḫsamna (VIII), 20th day, eponym year of Itti-Adad-anēnu.

o 7'7'

i-dan šúm-ma i-[din]

o 8'8'

UDU.MEŠ a-du ANŠE.[x-x]

Reverse
r 1r 1

i-dan ITI.APIN UD-20-[KÁM]

r 22

lim-mu mTA-10-a--nu

r 33

IGI mman-nu-iq-bi

(r 3) Witness: Mannu-iqbi. Witness: Šamaš-ilšu. Witness: Rība-ahū’a. [Witness: ]-iqbi. [Witness: PN].

r 44

IGI mdUTU-DINGIR-šú

r 55

[IGI] mSU-PAB?-ia-a

r 66

[IGI mx-x]-iq-bi

r 77

[IGI mx-x-x]-zi?-x


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/P522847/.