Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 1555
- Museum No.
- NCBT 1177
- Primary Publication
- Kleber 2008 02
- Place of issue
- Uruk city
- Regional setting
- Uruk city
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Kan. 09-III-02
- Inferred date
- around 639 BCE. The regency of Kandalānu falls outside the range of dates that are able to be calculated by the Babylonian Date Converter on eBL.
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 7 f
- Text Form
- Debt note ("promissory note") (uˀiltu; ina muḫḫi; ina pāni)
- Legal Purpose
- Loan (ina muḫḫi)
- Transaction Type
- not applicable
- Domain (Eanna)
- Storehouse management and allocation of miscellaneous goods
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
- Sealings
- True
Content
- Paraphrase
55 ½ minas of wool from 47 ewes are owed (ina muḫḫi) by Bēl-aḫu-iddin. Bibēa will deliver (nadānu) it to Eanna on [Kan].09.IV.15.
The text was written in the presence of (ina ušuzzi) Šamaš-ilāya, Royal Resident (qīpu) of Uruk and Eanna.
Note 1: The reverse of the tablet was left blank and contains a cylinder seal impression (Ehrenberg 1999 no. 219).
Note 2: The king is not mentioned after the year number. The tablet was dated by Kleber (2008: 52) to the regency of Kandalānu, based on the mention of Šamaš-ilāya, which was active as qīpu between the years 6-14 of this king.
- Legacy Paraphrase
Promissory note for wool: B owes Eanna (Ištar Temple) 55 ½ minas of wool from 47 ewes. He has to deliver it on the 15th of Simān (III) to Eanna via C. The transaction is concluded in the presence (ina ušuzzi) of the qīpu of Uruk and Eanna (Šamaš-ilāya). Witnesses and the scribe.
B = Bēl-ahu-iddin; C = Bibea
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Promissory notes ina muẖẖi
- last updated by
- Dylan Schimek, Sept. 30, 2026, 8:41 a.m.
- Imported (Person, Date)
- Melanie Gross (20/05/2017)
- Legacy NaBuCCo ID
- 5739
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Aarslev 2023 (PhD Diss.)
- dubsar 3
- Levavi 2020