Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
3184
Museum No.
NCBT 00652
Primary Publication
Place of issue
Tīl-atūnāti
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
Early Achaemenid
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Cam. 03-[x]-9+

Content

Paraphrase

Debt note for arable products.

A owes (ina muhhi) a grand total of 772;1 kor of barley, 36;2.3 kor of spelt, 2;0.5 kor of wheat and 0;1.2 kor of cress, property (makkūru) of Ištar of Uruk and Nanāya. He will pay these in Simān (III), using the measure (mašīhu) of the Lady-of-Uruk.

The debt consists of the obligations of 6–7 individuals (including A):

[...]; 90 kor of barley, 1 + kor of [...]; 55 kor of barley, 15 kor of spelt [... of B1]; total: 395 kor of barley, 19 kor of spelt [...]. 70 kor of barley, 0;0..2 kor of cress of B2; total: 465 kor of barley; 19 kor of spelt [...] of the ploughmen. 40 kor of barley, 0;0.5 kor of cress of B3 in Til-Agurrēti. 22 kor of barley of B4. 40 kor of barley of A. 60 kor of barley of B5. 30 kor of barley of B6. Total: 192 kor of barley, 0;0.5 kor of cress in the līmu of Til-Agurrēti. In total: 657 kor of barley, 19 kor of spelt, 0;2.3 kor of wheat and 0;1.1 kor of cress, from the ploughmen (ikkaru). 115;1 kor of barley, 17;2.3 kor of spelt, 1;3.2 kor of wheat and 0;0.1 kor of cress, from the sharecroppers (errēšu).
Names of 3 witnesses and a scribe.

A= Agria/Nabû-dalā, a known chief of ploughman and a temple-serf of Eanna; B1= […]; B2= Nanāya-[x]; B3= Šamaš-ēreš; B4= Šamaš-ēdu-uṣur; B5= Guzānu; B6= Ḫarrān-Bēl.


Further Information

Type and Content
Promissory notes ina muẖẖi
Imported (Person, Date)
Yuval Levavi, Kathleen Abraham (08/09/2023)
Mentioned in the following publication(s)
Janković 2013 (unpubl. PhD diss.)