Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
3173
Museum No.
YBC 11541
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 (paid instead of dates).

The debt note (uˀiltu) of B for […] dates belonging to (makkūru) of the Lady-of-Uruk and Nanāya is now converted (šupêltu, lit. exchanged) into their equivalent in barley namely 53 kor, and charged against (ina muhhiA.

A will deliver 26;2.3 kor in Dûzu (IV) in Uruk and 26;2.3 kor in Arahsamna (VIII) in Bāb-Ḫilti. The payments to Eanna will be in the measure (mašīhu) of the Lady-of-Uruk.

C, probably A’s brother, guarantees (pūtu našû) for the payment of the barley.

Names of 4 witnesses and a scribe.

A= Bībēa/Nabû-udammiq (probably C’s brother); B= Kalbāya/Iqīša//Basia; C= Mušēzib-Bēl/Nabû-udammiq (probably A’s brother).

Transliteration
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Cyr. 04-III-23

further information

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