Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
3587
Museum No.
YBC 07412
Primary Publication
YOS 7 142
CDLI P-Identifier
P308355
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. 03-VII-13
Date BCE
31/10/527

Digeanna

Van Driel Files
9 a
Text Form
Debt note ("promissory note") (uˀiltu; ina muḫḫi; ina pāni)
Transaction Type
transactional (incoming)
Second-order accounting
True
Domain (Eanna)
Agriculture
Format of the tablet
landscape

Content

Paraphrase

Ardia/Eanna-šumu-ibni (A1) owes Eanna 200;0 dates, part of the rent (sūtu) of (the rent farmer, ša muḫḫi sūti) Ardia/Nabû-bān-aḫi/Rēmūt-Ea (A2).

This is apart from (the dues recorded in) the document (giṭṭu) of A2, which A1 and gardeners under his management (ša qātēšu) did not deliver to the treasury of Eanna, and the dates that are A1’s outstanding (ina pānišu) impost (imittu) of a field for the 3rd year.

3 witnesses.

Scribe: Nabû-mukīn-apli/Marduk-šumu-iddin//Balāṭu.

Legacy Paraphrase

Promissory note. Ardiya/Eanna-šumu-ibni owes 200 kurru of dates to Eanna for land belonging to the rent farm (ša sūti) of Ardiya/Nabu-bān-aḫi/Rēmūt-Ea. This is over and above the receipts (giṭṭu) referring to payments made by gardeners under his supervision (ša qātišu), and also excepting the impost he owes for year three of Cambyses. Three witnesses and Nabû-mukīn-apli/Marduk-šumu-iddin//Balāṭu, the scribe.


Further Information

Type and Content
Promissory notes ina muẖẖi
last updated by
Małgorzata Sandowicz, June 19, 2025, 11:56 a.m.