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Til-Barsip 04

  • CDLI P522595
  • Excavation no.: T 04
  • Primary publication(s): Til-Barsip 04

Provenance

  • Provenience: Tell Ahmar (Til Barsip) (Pleiades ID: 658410)
  • Archive: 001 - Hanni Archive (House C1)

Object Details

  • Object type: tablet
  • Material: clay
  • Script: Neo-Assyrian
  • Sealed/Marked: no

Text Details

  • Language: Akkadian (Neo-Assyrian)
  • Genre: Legal Transaction
  • Subgenre: debt note (silver)
  • Debtor: Šarru-lu-dari

Date

  • Period: Neo-Assyrian
  • Reign: Ashurbanipal (668–ca. 631 BC)
  • Dated: yes
  • Date: 650-VII-01 (Tašrītu 1st, eponymy of Bēl-Harrān-šadd[û’a])

Til-Barsip 04 [debt note (silver)][via atae/tilbarsip]

Obverse
o 1o 1

06? GÍN 03-šá-a-

(1) Six and one-third shekels belonging to Hanni, at the disposal of Šarru-lu-dari.

o 22

ša? mḫa-ni-i

o 33

ina IGI mMAN-lu!?-da-ri

o 44

.BABBAR a-na 1/2 GÍN-šú

(4) The silver shall increase by fifty percent per shekel.

o 55

GAL-bi

o 66

ITI.DÙL UD-01-KAM

(6) Month Tašrītu (VII), 1st day, eponym year of Bel-Harran-šad[ûa].

o 77

lim-mu mEN-KASKAL-KUR-[u-a]

Reverse
r 8r 8

IGI mtab-ri-a-me

(8) Witness: Tabriame.

r 99

IGI mMAN-id-ri

(9) Witness: Šarru-idri.

r 1010

IGI mMAN-su-ri

(10) Witness: Šarru-suri.

r 1111

IGI mPAP-a-ma

(11) Witness: Ahuama.


Adapted from Stephanie Dalley, “Neo-Assyrian Tablets from Til Barsib," Abr-Nahrain 34 (1996–97) pp. 66–99, 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 and the English translation was adapted by Poppy Tushingham from Dalley’s translation. The online edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/atae/P522595/.