Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
3553
Museum No.
YBC 06861
Primary Publication
YOS 7 108
CDLI P-Identifier
P307876
Place of issue
Uruk city
Regional setting
Uruk region
Places mentioned on Tablet
Uruk city
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
Early Achaemenid
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Cam. 01-V-08
Date BCE
09/08/529

Digeanna

Van Driel Files
4 a
Text Form
Debt note ("promissory note") (uˀiltu; ina muḫḫi; ina pāni)
Transaction Type
transactional (incoming)
Domain (Eanna)
Higher-order management and policies
Format of the tablet
landscape

Content

Paraphrase

Iddināya/Arrabu owes 2 shekels of silver to Nanāya-iddin, son of (f)Ṭunātu (NI), female oblate of Ištar of Uruk. Payable in m.VI. The silver is for (kūm) the food rations that NI brought from Babylon, and which have gone missing (ḫalāqu).

The oblate Ištar-alik-pāni, chief of oblates (rab širki) of Ištar of Uruk, guarantees for the payment.

2 witnesses.

Scribe: Gimillu/Innin-zēru-iddin.

Legacy Paraphrase

Promissory note of 2 shekels of silver owed by Iddināya/Arrabi to Nanāya-iddin, the son of the woman Ṭunatu, a temple oblate (širku). This silver is a compensation for rations that Nanāya-iddin had taken from Babylon and lost. Innin-ālik-pāni, chief of the oblates (rab širki), guarantees the payment. Two witnesses and Gimillu/Innin-zēru-iddin, the scribe.


Further Information

Type and Content
Promissory notes ina muẖẖi
last updated by
Małgorzata Sandowicz, June 19, 2025, 11:03 a.m.