Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
3181
Museum No.
YBC 09213
Primary Publication
Kleber 2008 26
CDLI P-Identifier
P309935
Place of issue
Naḫal
Regional setting
Uruk region
Places mentioned on Tablet
Til-hurāṣi
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
Neo-Babylonian
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Nbk. 34-VI-28
Date BCE
13/10/571

Digeanna

Van Driel Files
9 a
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 staples
Format of the tablet
landscape

Content

Paraphrase

100;0 of barley, property of the temple, from the share in the harvest (as rent) (šibšu) of the plot of (tp)Til-ḫurāṣi, belonging to the bowmen (qaštu), that returned (naḫāsu Št) from (service) in the ward of the Governor of the Sealand (šākin māti), are owed (ina muḫḫi) by Innin-šumu-ibni/Balāssu. In m.II Nergal-šumu-uṣur, the agricultural supervisor (gugallu), will pay (nadānu) it in the measure (mašīḫu) of the Lady of Uruk on the shore of the (tp)King’s Canal (nār šarri). Nabû-šarru-uṣur will then give (nadānu) it for the regular offering (ginû) for the Lady of Uruk. The barley that will be given to the Temple Scribe (ṭupšar bīti) will be brought (našû) to this house. 

3 witnesses are listed. The scribe is Nabû-bān-aḫi/Ibnāya//Ekur-zākir, in (tp)Til-Naḫallu.

Legacy Paraphrase

Debt note for šibšu-tax in barley.

A owes (ina muhhi) 100 kor of barley, property (makkūru) of the Lady-of-Uruk and Nanāya. It is charged against him as part of (ina) the šibšu-tax from land (qaqqaru) (owned by the temple) in Til-hurāṣi (and assigned to) the archers (qaštu), who had been released (nahāsu, Š) from the service (lit. department/section, bābu) of the governor (šakin māti).

For an unknown reason, not A, but B, the canal inspector (gugallu), will pay the barley with the measure (mašīhu) of the Lady-of-Uruk in Ayyār (II) at Nār-šarri. Then, C will issue (nadānu) it for the regular offerings (ginû) of the Lady-of-Uruk.

The text then clarifies further that B will deliver the barley to Uruk and carry (našû) it to C’s house.

Names of 3 witnesses and a scribe.

Added note after the date formula: this is apart from the tithe (ešru), which they (probably A+B) will pay (at a later date).

A= Innin-šumu-ibni/Balāssu; B= Nergal-šumu-uṣur, canal inspector (gugallu); C= Nabû-šarru-uṣur, known as supervisor (bēl piqitti) of Eanna.


Further Information

last updated by
Dylan Schimek, Sept. 30, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
Imported (Person, Date)
Yuval Levavi, Kathleen Abraham (10/09/2023)