Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
3170
Museum No.
PTS 2692
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

Content

Paraphrase

Debt note for impost in dates.

A owes (ina muhhi) 40 kor of dates to the temple*. It is charged against him as impost (imittu) for the 1th year (of Cyrus) for a field (eqlu) in Bīt-Nabû-šumu-līšir, (the collection of which) belongs to (ša) the rent farm (sūtu) of B.

A will deliver these 40 kor of dates in Arahsamna (VIII) in Bīt-Nabû-šumu-līšir.

Names of 3 witnesses and a scribe.

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

Note that the document is written in 2 Cyr but refers to the impost of the previous.

A= Nanāya-iddin/Ibni-Ištar//Kurī; B= Kalbāya/Iqīša (//Basia), a known rent farmer (ša muhhi sūti).

Transliteration
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Cyr. 02-VIa-14

further information

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