Tablet NCBT 01012

NaBuCCo ID 3183
Museum No. NCBT 01012
CDLI P-Identifier
Place of issue
Type and content Promissory note ina muẖẖi
Archive
Period Each
Year BCE None
Editio princeps Jankovic 2013 (unpubl. PhD diss.)
Paraphrase

Debt note for barley from a sharecropper

A owes (ina muhhi) 13 kor of barley, the share (zittu) (due from him) for a share (zittu) in the property (makkūru) of Ištar of Uruk and Nanāya. The (collection of the) barley due is said to be at the responsibility (ša qātē) of BA will deliver it in Ayyār (II), according to the measure (mašīhu) of the Lady-of-Uruk, at the depot (maškattu). This is apart (elat) from the payment for the fee/wages (kurummatu) of the canal inspector (gugallu). The barley due is the property (makkūru) of Ištar of Uruk and Nanāya and said to be at the responsibility (ša qātē) of B

The tablet is drafted in the presence (ina ušuzzu) of C, the temple administrator (šatammu) of Eanna.

Names of 5 witnesses and a scribe.

A= Iqīša/Šālti-il; B= Agria/Nabû-dalā, a known chief of ploughman and a temple-serf of Eanna; C= Nabû-mukīn-apli/Nādin/Dābibī, temple administrator (šatammu) of Eanna.

Transliteration
Babylonian Date (year-month-day): Cam. 04-I-26