Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
3168
Museum No.
NCBT 00666
CDLI P-Identifier
Place of issue
Uruk city
Type and Content
Promissory notes ina muẖẖi
Archive
Eanna temple
Dossier
None
Period
Each
Year BCE
None
Editio princeps
Jankovic 2013 (unpubl. PhD diss.)

Content

Paraphrase

Debt note for barley and dates, tithe from the freemen in Bīt-Amukanu.

A owes (ina muhhi) 150 kor of barley and 150 kor of dates to the Eanna temple*. These 300 kor of barley and dates are the tithe (ešrû) of the freemen (mār banê) from the land of Bīt-Amukanu (i.e., a). This land (in southern Babylonia, stretches) from Uruk to Babylon, starting at the Takkīru-canal but not beyond the Nār-šarri, and up to the ešrû-(land) of B, the rent farmer (ša muhhi sūti) of Bīt-Amukanu who leased the license to collect tithes there on behalf of the temple.

A will deliver the barley in Ayyār (II) to the Eanna temple, and the dates in Tašrīt (VII).

The last clause is fragmentary (Tašrīt of 2 Camb, dates, and Bīt-Amukanu are mentioned).

Names of 6 witnesses and a scribe.

* Lit. to “the property (makkūru) of the Lady-of-Uruk and Nanāya”.

A= Bānia/Innin-šumu-[x]// Gimil-Nanāya; B= Dihummu, rent farmer (ša muhhi sūti) of Bīt-Amukanu.

Transliteration
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Cam. 02-IX-14

further information

Imported (Person, Date)
Yuval Levavi, Kathleen Abraham (10/09/2023)
Legacy NaBuCCo ID
None