YBC 04087

Bēl-aḫḫē-iddin/Nabû-ēreš (BAI), ploughman (ikkaru) owes 275;0 of barley. It is the impost (imittu) that he must pay as his sūtu-obligation (for his feld) in (tp)Imṭunu. This barley is the property (makkūru) of the Lady of Uruk and Nanāya and pertains (ša) to the fixed rent (sūtu) due to Šumu-ukīn/Bēl-zēri//Basia, the rent farmer (ša muḫḫi sūti) (who had leased the license to collect rent on behalf of the temple). BAI will deliver the barley in m.II using the measure (mašīḫu) of the Lady of Uruk.

This is apart (elat) from the previous debt charged against him.

4 witnesses and the scribe Balāṭu/Mušēzib-Bēl

Note

For the seemingly contradictory estimated impost (imittu) and fixed rent (sūtu), see Janković 2013, 52f.

Debt note for impost in barley.

A, the ploughman (ikkaru), owes (ina muhhi) 275 kor of barley (to the temple). It is the impost (imittu) that he has to pay as his sūtu-obligation* (for land) in the irrigated farmland (tamirtu) of Imṭunu. This barley is the property (makkūru) of the Lady-of-Uruk and Nanāya and pertains (ša) to the fixed rent (sūtu) due to B, the rent farmer (ša muhhi sūti) of the Lady-of-Uruk (who had leased the license to collect rent on behalf of the temple). A will deliver the barley in Ayyār (II) using the measure (mašīhu) of the Lady-of-Uruk.

This is apart (elat) from the previous debt notes charged against him.

Names of 4 witnesses and a scribe.

* For the seemingly contradictory estimated impost (imittu) and fixed rent (sūtu), see Janković 2013 (PhD diss.), 52f.

A= Bēl-ahhē-iddin/Nabû-ēreš, ploughman (ikkaru); B= Šumu-ukīn/Bēl-zēri//Basia, rent farmer (ša muhhi sūti) (see Janković/Hackl/Jursa 2011).