Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3576
- Museum No.
- YBC 03864
- Primary Publication
- YOS 7 131
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P305222
- Place of issue
- Uruk city
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Cam. 02-IV-07
- Date BCE
- 29/06/528
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 9 a
- Text Form
- Debt note ("promissory note") (uˀiltu; ina muḫḫi; ina pāni)
- Legal Purpose
- Debt Repayment (maḫir, eṭir)
- Transaction Type
- not applicable
- Domain (Eanna)
- Higher-order management and policies
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
Content
- Paraphrase
Ardia/Eanna-šumu-ibni and Balāṭu/Nādin-aḫi owe 303;3.2 dates to Eanna, payable until the end of m.VIII. The dates are the rest of imposts (imdu) for Cam. 01 that remained at their disposal after the settlement of accounts (epēš nikkassi).
Written in the presence of Nabû-mukīn-apli/Nādinu//Dābibī (NMA), High Priest (šatammu) of Eanna, Nabû-aḫu-iddin (NAI), Royal Overseer (ša rēš šarri bēl piqitti) of Eanna, Bēl-eṭēri-Nabû, royal courtier appointed to Eanna (ša rēš šarri ša ina Eanna paqdu), and Amurru-šarru-uṣur/Aḫu-līšir, Aramaic scribe (sēpiru).
Scribe: Nādinu/Bēl-aḫḫē-iqīša//Egibi.
- Legacy Paraphrase
Promissory note for outstanding date imposts (indu) for Cambyses’ first year owed by Ardiya/Eanna-šumu-ibni and Balāṭu/Nādin-aḫi. A settlement of accounts had resulted in a deficit of 303;3.2 kurru. The two individuals must pay within 5 months. The text is witnessed by Nabû-mukīn-apli/Nādinu//Dābibī, bishop (šatammu) of Eanna, Nabû-aḫu-iddin, royal representative (ša rēš šarri) and commissioner (bēl piqitti) of Eanna, Bēl-ēpir-Nabû, royal representative (ša rēš šarri) and paqdu in Eanna, and Amurru-šarru-uṣur/Aḫu-līšir, parchment scribe (sēpiru). Nādinu/Bēl-aḫḫē-iqīša//Egibi serves as the scribe.
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Balanced accounts
- last updated by
- Julia Giessler, Aug. 1, 2025, 3:23 p.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Cocquerillat 1968