BT 124

CDLI P522840
Collection no.: IM —
Excavation no.: BT 124
Primary publication(s): BT 124

Provenance

Provenience: Balawat (Imgur-Enlil)
Archive: 001 - Mamu Temple, Room 8

Object Details

Object type: tablet
Material: clay
Script: Neo-Assyrian
Sealed/Marked: yes
Seal/Mark Type: cylinder seal; stamp seal
Number of Sealings:

Text Details

Language: Akkadian (Neo-Assyrian)
Genre: Legal Transaction
Subgenre: debt note (silver)

Date

Period: Neo-Assyrian
Reign: Sennacherib (704–681 BC)
Dated: yes
Date: 686-XI-01 (Šabāṭu 1st, eponymy of Bēl-ēmuranni, commander-in-chief)

Views

BT 124 [debt note (silver)]


Obverse
o 1o 1	NA₄.KIŠIB LÚ^*.EN.NAM ša URU.ár-zu-ḫi-⸢na⸣	(1) Seal of the governor of Arzuhina. Seal of Rēmanni-ilu. Seal of Ahu-ilu. Envelope. Three minas of silver by the mina of the king, belonging to Mamu-iqbi, at the disposal of the governor of Arzuhina, at the disposal of Rēmanni-ilu (and) at the disposal of Ahu-ilu. At the beginning of the new moon in month Addaru (XII), he shall pay back the silver in its capital amount. If he does not pay, it will increase monthly by [n] shekels of silver per mina. He will hand over the silver in Nineveh.
o 22	NA₄.KIŠIB ^mrém-ni-DINGIR NA₄.KIŠIB ^ma-ḫu-DINGIR
o 33	ki-⸢ṣir-tu⸣ 03 MA.NA KUG.UD ina MA^!.NA^!-e
o 44	ša ⸢DUMU⸣-LUGAL
o 55	ša ^mMA.MÚ-iq-bi
	cylinder seal impression
o 66	ina IGI LÚ^*.EN.NAM ša URU.ár-zu-ḫi-na
o 77	ina IGI ^mrém-ni-DINGIR ina IGI ^ma-ḫu-DINGIR
o 88	ina ŠÀ-bi ⸢SAG⸣.DU DINGIR GIBIL
o 99	⸢ša ITI.ŠE KUG⸣.UD.MEŠ ina SAG.DU-šú
o 1010	⸢SUM⸣-an šúm-ma la SUM-ni
o 1111	[x] ⸢GÍN⸣ KUG.UD ina ma-⸢né-e⸣ ša ITI i-rab-bi
Reverse
r 1r 1	KUG.UD.MEŠ ina qab-si URU.ni-nu-a i-da-an
r 22	IGI ^mEN-ZU LÚ^*.GAL-É	(r 2) Witness: Issār-šumu-lēšir, cohort commander. Witness: Šuhukinsu. Witness: Balāssu-iqbi. Witness: Bābilāya. Witness: Nergal-ašarēd. Month Šabāṭu (XI), 1st day. Eponym year of Bēl-ēmuranni, commander-in-chief.
	cylinder seal impression
r 33	IGI ^m^d15-MU-GIŠ LÚ.GAL-ki-ṣir
r 44	IGI ^mšu^?-ḫu-ki-in-su
r 55	IGI ^mTI.LA-su-iq-bi
r 66	IGI ^mURU.KÁ.DINGIR-a-a IGI ^m^dU.GUR-MAŠ
r 77	ITI.ZÍZ UD-01-KÁM
r 88	lim-me ^mEN-IGI.LAL-a-ni LÚ^*.tur-ta-nu
Left
l.e. 1l.e. 1	⸢šúm⸣-ma ina URU.ár-zu-ḫi-na KUG.⸢UD⸣	(l.e. 1) If he hands over the silver in Arzuhina, he will pay one and a half [x x] of silver.
l.e. 22	⸢i⸣-da-an 01 1/2 [x x]
l.e. 33	⸢KUG⸣.UD.MEŠ i-⸢da⸣-[an]
	stamp seal impression

Adapted from Barbara Parker, “Tablets from the Temple of Mamu at Balawat,” Iraq 25 (1963): 86–103, 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. The online edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/atae/P522840/.