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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, which led the gods to his deposition and to the designation of Bēl-ibni as new ruler of the land.
Access the composite text [/ribo/babylon6/Q006310] of Bēl-ibni 1.
Source
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, 2024 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon6/PeriodofAssyrianDomination/Bel-ibni/Inscriptions/]