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Til-Barsip 06

  • CDLI P522597
  • Excavation no.: T 06
  • Primary publication(s): Til-Barsip 06

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: Ilu-badi; Adad-ahu-[...]

Date

  • Period: Neo-Assyrian
  • Reign: Ashurbanipal (668–ca. 631 BC)
  • Dated: yes
  • Date: 640*-IX (Kislīmu, eponymy after that of Aššur-garu’a-[nere])

Til-Barsip 06 [debt note (silver)][via atae/tilbarsip]

Obverse
o 1o 1

1/2 MA.NA .BABBAR

(1) Half a mina of silver belonging to Hanni, at the disposal of Ilu-badi and at the disposal of Adad-ahu-[(...)] ...

o 22

šá mḫa-an-ni-i

o 33

ina IGI mDINGIR-ba?-di? (blank)

o 44

ina IGI md10-PAP?-[(...)]

o 55

ina BU-BU-x-[...]

Bottom
b.e. 6b.e. 6

x x x x [...]

b.e. 77

.BABBAR ina 03-su-šú (blank)

(7) The silver shall increase by one-third.

Reverse
r 8r 8

GAL-bi ITI.GAN lim-me

(8) Month Kislīmu (IX), the year after the eponym year of Aššūr-gārūʾa-[nēre].

r 99

EGIR m-šur-ga-ru-[a-ni-ri]

r 1010

IGI md10-MAN */DUMU [...]

(10) Witness: Adad-šarru, ... [...].

r 1111

IGI mse-ma?-a-di? (blank)

(11) Witness: Seʾ-maʾadi.

r 1212

IGI mú-pa-qa-[ana-x-x-(x)]

(12) Witness: Upaqa-[ana-DN].

perhaps three lines of erased witnesses or annotations


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/P522597/.