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AchHist 15, 197

  • CDLI: P453435
  • Prosobab: 3946
  • Collection: Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
  • Collection no.: EAH 00229
  • Primary publication: BE 08/1, 117

Provenance

  • Provenience: Borsippa (mod. Birs Nimrud) (Pleiades ID: 893964)

Object Details

  • Object type: tablet
  • Material: clay

Text Details

  • Category: 4. Oxherds
  • Archive: Rē’i-alpi
  • Language: Akkadian
  • Genre: Administrative
  • Subgenre: Receipt of silver
  • Period: Achaemenid
  • Date of writing: Darius1.32.03.22
  • Place of writing: unknown

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AchHist 15, 197 (BE 08/1, 117) [Receipt of silver][via borsippa]

Obverse
obverse
11

u₄-mu-MEŠ GIŠ.ŠUB.BA lu₂SIPA.GUD

(1) (Concerning) the days of the oxherd prebend in Ezida, temple of Nabû, prebend of Rēmūt-Nabû/Nabû-mukīn-zēri/Rēʾi-alpi, leased (ana ēpišānūti) to Nabû-erība since the 18th year until the 32nd year (of Darius): Nabû-erība has received in full his silver for (doing) service from the 18th until the 32nd year of king Darius from Bēl-ittannu and Nabû-ittannu, the sons of Rēmūt-Nabû.

22

E₂.ZI.DA E₂ dAG GIŠ.ŠUB.BA

33

ša₂ mre-mut-dAG DUMU-šu₂ ša₂ mdAG-GIN-NUMUN

44

A mlu₂SIPA.GUD ša₂ a-na e-piš-nu-tu

55

TA MU 18-KAM a-di MU 32-KAM

66

ša₂ i-na pa-ni mdAG-eri-ba KU₃.BABBAR-šu₂

77

ša₂ man-zal-la-tu₄ TA MU 18-KAM

88

a-di MU 32-KAM mda-ri-ia₂-a-muš LUGAL KUR?-[MEŠ]

99

mdAG-eri-ba i-na ŠU-MIN mdEN-it-[tan-nu]

1010

u mdAG-it-tan-nu DUMU-MEŠ ša₂ mre-mut-[dAG]

bottom
1111

ma-ḫir e-ṭir dib-bi-šu₂-nu [ša₂ KU₃.BABBAR]

(11) They have ended their dispute about the outstanding [silver] of Nabû-erība.

1212

[ša₂] ku-tal-la ša₂ mdAG-eri-ba

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1313

it-ti a-ḫa-meš qa-tu-u₂ [o]

1414

1en-TA.AM₃ gaba-ra-ni-e [TIu₂]

(14) Each (party) [has taken] a copy.

1515

lu₂mu-kin-nu mdAG-it-tan-nu DUMU

(15) Witnesses: Nabû-ittannu/Balāṭu, Iddinā/Iddin-Bēl, Nabû-uballiṭ/Nabû-ittannu, Nabû-bullissu/Nabû-aplu-iddin?/Arkāt-ilāni.

1616

mba-la-ṭu mSUMna-a A mMU-dEN

1717

mdAG-TINiṭ A mdAG-it-tan-nu

1818

mdAG-bul-liṭ-su DUMU-šu₂ ša₂ mdAG-EDURU-MU?1

1919

A mar₂-kat₂-DINGIR-MEŠ DUB.SAR <mx> A-šu₂ ša₂ mdAG-EN-šu₂-nu2

(19) Scribe: ‹PN›/Nabû-bēlšunu/Ilšu-abūšu.

2020

A mDINGIR-MEŠ-ša₂-bu-šu₂ itiSIG₄ UD 22-KAM

(20) Dar 22-III-32.

2121

MU 32-KAM <m>da-ri-ia₂-a-muš

2222

LUGAL Eki LUGAL KUR-MEŠ

1MU written as BI

2There is a mistake in these lines. Clay (BE 8) proposed to take Arkāt-ilāni as the scribe’s name, but this can not be correct because the name Arkāt-ilāni is used only as a family name in Borsippa. Either the name of the scribe has been omitted (as proposed here) and his father’s name is Nabû-bēlšunu//Ilšuabūšu, or the scribe’s name is Nabû-bēlšunu and there is no mention of the father’s name. Prosopographic analysis could support either possibility: there is a Nabû-bēlšunu/Nabû-aplu-iddin/Ilšu-abūšu, attested from Camb 05 until Dar 19 (BM 96179 no. 54, VS 5 86), and an Itti-Nabû-balāṭu/Nabû-bēlšunu/Ilšu-abūšu, attested in the reign of Darius (BM 94639); none of these texts is part of the Oxherd archive or otherwise connected to BE 8 117.


Adapted from Caroline Waerzeggers, The Ezida Temple of Borsippa: Priesthood, Cult, Archives (Achaemenid History 15), 2010. The lemmatization of this text has been completed by Ellie Bennett. The lemmatization of the text corpus was started by Bastian Still and Caroline Waerzeggers as part of the ERC Starting Grant project BABYLON and completed by Tero Alstola, Ellie Bennett, Céline Debourse, Julia Giessler, and Evelien Vanderstraeten as part of the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in Ancient Near Eastern Empires. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/borsippa/P453435.