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BT 140

  • CDLI P522849
  • Collection no.: IM —
  • Excavation no.: BT 140
  • Primary publication(s): BT 140

Provenance

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

Object Details

  • Object type: tablet, envelope
  • Material: clay
  • Script: Neo-Assyrian
  • Sealed/Marked: yes
  • Seal Owner(s): Agari

Text Details

  • Language: Akkadian (Neo-Assyrian)
  • Genre: Legal Transaction
  • Subgenre: judicial document

Date

  • Period: Neo-Assyrian
  • Reign: Sennacherib (704–681 BC)
  • Dated: yes
  • Date: 685-I (Nisannu, eponymy of Aššur-da’’inanni)

BT 140 [judicial document][via atae/imgurenlil]

Obverse
o 1o 1

mman-nu-ki-URU.arba-ìl

(1) Mannu-kī-Arbail stole a slave girl of the queen. In lieu (of his fine) he is bound and sold. Mamu-iqbi paid half a talent in minas of copper to Agāri and freed Mannu-kī-Arbail.

o 22

GÉME ša -É.GAL

o 33

i-si-ri-qi ku-um

o 44

ka-su ta-din-ni

o 55

mdMA.-iq-bi

o 66

1/2 .UN MA.NA URUDU.MEŠ

o 77

a-na ma-ga-ri

o 88

ta-di-ni

o 99

[m]man-nu-ki-URU.arba-ìl

Reverse
r 1r 1

ip-da-ṭar ITI.BARAG

(r 1) Month Nisannu (I), eponym year of Aššur-da’’inanni. Witness: Bābilāya. Witness: Nabû-dūru-uṣur. Witness: chief cook of the queen. Witness: Tikasu. Witness: Nergal-[x]. Witness: Balasî.

r 22

lim-me m-šur-KALAG-in-a-ni

r 33

IGI mURU..DINGIR-a-a

r 44

IGI mdPA-BÀD-PAB

r 55

IGI *.GAL-MU.MEŠ ša .É.GAL

r 66

[IGI] mti-ku-[su]

r 77

[IGI] mU.GUR-[x-x-x]

r 88

[IGI] mba-la-[si-i]

Envelope
env oenv o beginning broken away
env o 1'1'

[NA₄].KIŠIB ma-ga-ri

(env o 1) [Sea]l of Agāri. Mannu-kī-Arbail stole a slave girl of the queen. In lieu of his fine he is bound and sold. Mamu-iqbi paid half a talent in minas of copper to Agāri and [] Mannu-kī-Arbail. []

env o 2'2'

mman-nu-ki-URU.arba-ìl

env o 3'3'

GÉME [ša] .É.GAL i-si-ri-qi

env o 4'4'

ku-um sa!-ar!-ti-šú

seal impressions
env o 5'5'

ka-su ta-din-[ni]

env o 6'6'

mdMA.-iq-bi

env o 7'7'

[1/2] .UN MA.NA URUDU.MEŠ

env o 8'8'

a-na ma-ga-ri

env o 9'9'

[ta]-din-ni

env o 10'10'

[m]man-[nu-ki-URU.arba-ìl]

rest 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/P522849/.