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BT 139

  • CDLI P522848
  • Collection no.: IM —
  • Excavation no.: BT 139
  • Primary publication(s): BT 139

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 (silver; pledge)
  • Debtor: Šēr-dalâ

Date

  • Period: Neo-Assyrian
  • Reign: Sennacherib (704–681 BC)
  • Dated: yes
  • Date: 684-IX-12 (Kislīmu 12th, [eponymy] of Manzernê)

BT 139 [debt note (silver; pledge)][via atae/imgurenlil]

Obverse
o 1o 1

[x x x] KUG.UD mdBU-da-la-a

(1) [] silver. Šēr-dalâ has taken it as a loan from Nenê. Ḫaldi-ibni, his son, is placed as a pledge in lieu of interest on the silver. (If he dies or flees) by water, oil, snake (or) scorpion, it is the responsibility of his father. [...] he shall serve him. He shall deliver [the silver] and redeem [his son]. Month Kislīmu (IX), 12th day, eponym year of Manzarnê.

o 22

[TA] IGI m--e ina pu-u-ḫi

o 33

[it-ti]-ši mdḫal-da- .DUMU-šú

o 44

[ina šá]-par-[ti] ku-um ru--e

o 55

[ša KUG].UD kam-mu-su ina A.MEŠ Ì.MEŠ

o 66

[MUŠ] GÍR.TAB ina UGU AD-šú

o 77

[x x x]+x-i i-pal-laḫ-šú

o 88

[x x] ú-še-rab-ba

Reverse
r 1r 1

[DUMU-šú] ú-še-ṣa ITI.GAN UD-12-KÁM*

r 22

[lim]-mu mman-za--e

r 33

[IGI m]GIŠ?.GAG-IGI.LAL *.Ì.DU₈

(r 3) Witness: Sikkatu-lāmur, gatekeeper. Witness: Il-dalâ. Witness: Ezbu. Witness: Nārānu. Witness: Tikasu. Witness: []za.

r 44

[IGI m]DINGIR-da-la-a

r 55

IGI mez-bu

r 66

IGI m[na]-ra?-nu

r 77

[IGI mti]-ku?-su

r 88

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


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/P522848/.