Inscriptions

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This inscription is transmitted by a clay tablet, now part of the Binning collection, which, as the support, the absence of a list of witnesses and the presence of two different colophons show, is a copy of an original royal decree dated to Bēl-ibni.
The Late-Babylonian Akkadian inscription records the grant of some privileges, as exemption from feudal obligations, corvée-labour and taxation, conceded by Bēl-ibni to the town of Ša-uṣur-Adad, probably to be identified with the fortified Chaldean city of Ša-iṣṣur-Adad or with that of Ša-ṣur(u)-Adad. In the first lines missing, probably only two or three considering the curvature of the tablet, was probably described a situation of disorder in southern Babylonia during the reign of the previous king, Marduk-apla-iddina II [http://oracc.iaas.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon6/periodofassyriandomination/mardukaplaiddinaii/index.html], which led the gods to his deposition and to the designation of Bēl-ibni as new ruler of the land.

Access the composite text [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon6/Q006310] of Bēl-ibni 1.

Source

Bibliography

• Walker 1982 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon6/bibliography/index.html#walker1982], pp. 71-76 (edition)
• Frame 1995 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon6/bibliography/index.html#frame1995], pp. 157-159 (edition)

• Walker 1982 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon6/bibliography/index.html#walker1982], p. 70 (copy)

• Brinkman and Kennedy 1983 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon6/bibliography/index.html#brinkmanandkennedy1983], p. 15 no. En.1 (study)

Giulia Lentini

Giulia Lentini, 'Inscriptions', RIBo, Babylon 6: The Inscriptions of the Period of the Uncertain Dynasties, The RIBo Project, a sub-project of MOCCI, 2018 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon6/periodofassyriandomination/belibni/inscriptions/]