Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
3170
Museum No.
PTS 2692
Primary Publication
Place of issue
Uruk city
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
Early Achaemenid
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Cyr. 02-VIb-14

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).


Further Information

Type and Content
Promissory notes ina muẖẖi
last updated by
Matthias Adelhofer, July 17, 2025, 10:30 a.m.
Imported (Person, Date)
Yuval Levavi, Kathleen Abraham (10/09/2023)