Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3175
- Museum No.
- AO 6804
- Primary Publication
- TCL 12 040
- Place of issue
- Babylon city
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbk. 23-III?-10+
- Date BCE
- 31/05/582
Digeanna
- 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 silver
- Private context
- True
Content
- Paraphrase
Zababa-šumu-ukīn/Bēl-īpuš//Šangû-Bēlet-Nināya (Z) owes (ina muḫḫi) 3 minas of silver of Šumu-ukīn/Bēl-zēri//Basia (Š) for a business venture (ḫarrānu). Standard clauses about sharing profits follows. Investments may only be done with Š’s consent.
3 witnesses (Z’s brother, Šulāya/Bēl-īpuš//Šangû-Bēlet-Nināya), and the scribe, Z.
- Legacy Paraphrase
Debt note for silver from a commercial partnership.
A owes (ina muhhi) 3 minas of silver to B, which were given for the purpose of running a joint business venture (harrānu). Each will get half of the profits that A will make in the city or in the steppe. A shall not use the silver for his expenses (etēqu) without B’s consent. The silver comes from the business venture established by C.
Names of 3 witnesses and a scribe.
A= Zababa-šumu-iddin/Bēl-ēpuš//Šangû-Bēlet-Nīnua; B= Šumu-ukīn/Bēl-zēri//Basia, known as a royal supervisor and a rent farmer; C= Rēmūt//Basia.
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Promissory notes ina muẖẖi
- last updated by
- Matthias Adelhofer, March 19, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
- Imported (Person, Date)
- Yuval Levavi, Kathleen Abraham (10/09/2023)
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- TCL 12