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BM 54067 (RA 97, 69)

  • CDLI P522423
  • Collection no.: BM 054067
  • Accession no.: 1882-05-22, 0188
  • Primary publication(s): BM 54067 (RA 97, 69)

Provenance

  • Provenience: Kutha (mod. Tell Ibrahim) (Pleiades ID: 893977)
  • Archive: Kutha 7.3.3 (Šangû-Ištar-Bābili)

Object Details

  • Object type: tablet
  • Material: clay

Text Details

  • Language: Akkadian
  • Genre: Legal
  • Subgenre: Promissory note for barley

Date

  • Period: Achaemenid

BM 54067 (RA 97, 69) [Promissory note for barley][via babcity]

Obverse
o 1o 1

42 GUR ŠE.BAR ša₂ md+EN-TINiṭ DUMU ša₂

(o 1) 42 kur of barley belonging to Bel-uballiṭ, son of Nabu-šum-ukin, owed by Nergal-ušallim, son of Nurea

o 22

md+NA₃-MU-DU ina muḫ-ḫi mdU.GUR-GI DUMU ša₂ mZALAG₂-e-a

o 33

ina itiSIG₄ ŠE.BAR a₄ 42 GUR

(o 3) in the month of Simanu he will pay those 42 kur of barley in the mašihu-measure of 1 panu, the whole amount, in Kutha.

o 44

ina gišma-ši-ḫu ša₂ 1 PI gam-mir-tu₄

o 55

ina GU₂.DU₈.Aki i-nam-din

o 66

pu-ut e-ṭe₃-ru ša₂ ŠE.BAR a₄

(o 6) Bel-ittannu, son of Itti-Bel-immir, bears responsibility for the payment of those 42 kur of barley.

o 77

42 GUR md+EN-it-tan-nu DUMU ša₂

o 88

mKI-d+EN-im-mir na-ši

Bottom
b.e. 9b.e. 9

( fingernail impression ) ṣu-pur mdU.GUR-GI

(b.e. 9) Finger-nail of Nergal-ušallim.

Reverse
r 10r 10

lu₂mu-kin-nu md+EN-ana-mi-re-eḫ-tu₄

(r 10) Witnesses: Bel-ana-mirehtu, son of Bel-kaṣir;

r 1111

DUMU ša₂ md+EN-ka-ṣir

r 1212

md+EN-it-tan-nu DUMU ša₂ mdi-šum-MU

(r 12) Bel-ittannu, son of Išum-iddin;

r 1313

mri-bat DUMU ša₂ mka-ṣir

(r 13) Ribat, son of Kaṣir;

r 1414

mdUTU-a-a DUMU ša₂ mka-ṣir

(r 14) Šamšaya, son of Kaṣir;

r 1515

lu₂UMBISAG mdAMAR.UTU-URI₃ DUMU ša₂ md+EN-it-tan-nu

(r 15) scribe, Marduk-naṣir, son of Bel-ittannu.

r 1616

GU₂.DU₈.Aki itiGAN UD 13-KAM

(r 16) Kutha, 13th day of Kislimu, 19th year of Artaxerxes, king of the lands.

r 1717

MU 19-KAM mar-ta-ak-ša₂-as-sa

r 1818

LUGAL KUR.KUR


Based on the edition of Michael Jursa, Spätachämenidische Texte aus Kutha. Revue d’Assyriologie 97 (2003) 43–140. Adapted and lemmatized by Jinyan Wang, 2020–2021 (University of Toronto). The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/babcity/P522423/.