Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3531
- Museum No.
- YBC 04080
- Primary Publication
- YOS 7 086
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P305392
- Place of issue
- Ālu-ša-Bēl-ušēzib
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Places mentioned on Tablet
- Abanu
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Cyr. 08-mm-+3
- Date BCE
- 531
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 4 k
- Text Form
- Receipt (maḫāru, eṭēru)
- Legal Purpose
- Debt Repayment (maḫir, eṭir)
- Transaction Type
- transactional (incoming)
- Domain (Eanna)
- Higher-order management and policies
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
Content
- Paraphrase
[PN]/Nabû-ḫannī and Barik-Šamaš, the messengers (mār šipri) of Ṭābia/Nabû-zuqup-kīnu (Ṭ) received 54 (or: 55) shekels of silver, property of Eanna. This is a partial repayment of Ṭʼs debt note (uʼiltu) about 1.5 minas of silver charged to the debit of Nabû-zēru-iddin/Bēlšunu, deputy governor (šanû) of (tp)Tupliʼaš Canal (nār Tupli’aš), and Innin-aḫḫē-iddin/Ina-tēšî-ēṭir (restoration of the theophoric name element based on YOS 7 84: 27), chief of oblates (rab širki) of the Lady of Uruk (restoration based on Ragen 2007: 72). It was the purchase price (šīmu) for spices (tabīlu), given for provisioning (šuṣbuttu) of the palace in (tp)Abanu.
3 witnesses.
Scribe: Nādinu/Bēl-aḫḫē-iqīša//Egibi.
- Legacy Paraphrase
Partial settlement of a debt of Eanna, through Nabû-zēru-iddin/Bēlšunu, second of the Tupliyaš-canal, and Ištar-aḫḫē-iddin/Ina-tēši-ēṭir, leader of the oblates (rab širkī), of 90 shekels of silver to Ṭabiya/Nabu-zuqup-kēna, who had bought spices for the royal table of Abanu. Three witnesses and Nādinu/Bēl-aḫḫē-iqīša//Egibi, the scribe.
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Promissory notes ina muẖẖi
- last updated by
- Julia Giessler, Aug. 1, 2025, 3:08 p.m.