Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3611
- Museum No.
- YBC 03777
- Primary Publication
- YOS 7 166
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P305135
- Place of issue
- Bēltija
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Places mentioned on Tablet
- Bēltija
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Cam. 04-XII-18
- Date BCE
- 11/03/525
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 4 a
- Text Form
- Debt note ("promissory note") (uˀiltu; ina muḫḫi; ina pāni)
- Legal Purpose
- Other or sfs (various verbs)
- Transaction Type
- transactional (incoming)
- Domain (Eanna)
- Higher-order management and policies
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
Content
- Paraphrase
Šamaš-erība/Nabû-udammiq and Nabû-natan/Yamuši-il owe Eanna 7.5 minas of silver, payable in m.IV. This is the silver for 3 months (work), missing (ma-ṭi!-tu, following Tolini 2011 [PhD diss.]/2: 315) from the “house” of the chiefs of fifty workers (bīt rabûti ša ḫanšē ṣābi), who did not perform their work at the palace in (tp)Bēltia with the Royal Resident (qīpu). Mutual guarantee.
3 witnesses.
Scribe: Bēl-nāṣir/Bānia.
- Legacy Paraphrase
Promissory note of Šamaš-erība/Nabû-mudammiq and Nabû-natanni/Yamuši-ilu. They owe the temple 7 mines and 30 shekels of silver to be paid within 4 months. This is compensation for the lack of work by 50 workers for 3 months during the construction of the palace of Bēltiya. Three witnesses and Bēl-nāṣir/Bāniya, the scribe.
Duplicate of BM 113488 (Kleber 2008, 193).
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Promissory notes ina muẖẖi
- last updated by
- Małgorzata Sandowicz, June 21, 2025, 8:47 p.m.