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BM 54813 (RA 97, 104, 140)

  • CDLI P522453
  • Collection no.: BM 054813
  • Accession no.: 1882-05-22, 1142
  • Primary publication(s): BM 54813 (RA 97, 104, 140)

Provenance

  • Provenience: Kutha (mod. Tell Ibrahim) (Pleiades ID: 893977)
  • Archive: Kutha, unassigned

Object Details

  • Object type: tablet
  • Material: clay

Text Details

  • Language: Akkadian
  • Genre: Legal
  • Subgenre: House rental contract?

Date

  • Period: Achaemenid

BM 54813 (RA 97, 104, 140) [House rental contract?][via babcity]

Obverse
o 1o 1

E₂ ša₂ ina ma-la-⸢ku⸣ GAL [... ...]

(o 1) A house in the way [......],

o 22

ša₂ DA E₂ m⸢IM?-x⸣-A DUMU ša₂ m[x ... ...]

(o 2) which is next to the house of [...], son of [... ...],

o 33

mše-el-[lib] DUMU ša₂ m[x ... ...]

(o 3) Šellebi, son of [... ...],

o 44

DUMU ša₂ md+NA₃-⸢KAR-ZIti⸣ .MEŠ [... ...]

(o 4) son of Nabu-eṭir-napšati [... ...],

o 55

⸢x⸣ a-⸢na⸣ [x x x x] ⸢x⸣ [... ...]

(o 5) [...] to [... ...].

(rest of obverse missing)
Reverse
r 1'r 1'

[x x m]DUB-⸢NUMUN⸣ [... ...]

(r 1') [... ...] Šapik-zeri [... ...],

r 2'2'

md+EN-bul-liṭ-su DUMU ša₂ m⸢IR₃⸣-[x ... ...]

(r 2') Bel-bullissu, son of Arad-[... ...]

r 3'3'

mri-bat mdAMAR.UTU-PAB DUMU ša₂ m⸢MU⸣-[x ... ...]

(r 3') Ribat; Marduk-naṣir, son of MU-[... ...]

r 4'4'

DUMU ša₂ mKI-d+NA₃-TIN GU₂.DU₈.Aki ⸢iti⸣[x ... ...]

(r 4') son of Itti-Nabu-balaṭu. Kutha, [... ...]

r 5'5'

mar-ta-ak-ša₂-⸢as-su⸣ [LUGAL KUR.KUR]

(r 5') Artaxerxes, king of the lands.

Based on the edition of Michael Jursa, Spätachämenidische Texte aus Kutha. Revue d’Assyriologie 97 (2003) 104, 140. Adapted and lemmatized by Mohammad Raza Haider, 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/P522453/.