Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
3614
Museum No.
YBC 04074
Primary Publication
YOS 7 169
CDLI P-Identifier
P305386
Place of issue
Kapri-ša-nāqidāti
Regional setting
Uruk region
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
Early Achaemenid
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Cam. 04-I-00
Date BCE
06/04/526

Digeanna

Van Driel Files
9 i
Text Form
Debt note ("promissory note") (uˀiltu; ina muḫḫi; ina pāni)
Legal Purpose
Lease (ana ...ūti nadānu, ṣabātu; ina pāni)
Transaction Type
not applicable
Domain (Eanna)
Higher-order management and policies
Format of the tablet
landscape

Content

Paraphrase

Nādinu/Gimillu/Gimil-Nanāya owes 26;0 barley, 6;0 emmer, and 1;2.3 wheat from a share in a plot of land (qaqqaru), property of Eanna, under the management of (ša qātē) Naʼid-Ištar/Arad-Innin. He shall pay in m.II in the measure (mašīḫu) of the Lady of Uruk in one installment. This is apart from the “allowance”-fee (kurummatu) for the agricultural supervisor (gugallu) and apart from outstanding dues (rēḫu) of his father Gimillu.

Written in the presence of Nabû-mukīn-apli/Nādinu//Dābibī (NMA), High Priest (šatammu) of Eanna.

5 witnesses.

Scribe: Marduk-nāṣir/Madānu-aḫḫē-iddin//Šigûa.

 

Legacy Paraphrase

Estimate of the grain tax due on land in the Eanna allocated to Na’id-Innin/Arad-Innin, of which Nādinu/Gimillu//Gimil-Nanāya is the operator. The tax is to be paid in one month. Mention is made of the tax for the gugallu and an arrears owed by Nādinu’s father. The estimation is witnessed by Nabû-mukīn-apli/Nādinu//Dābibī, bishop (šatammu) of Eanna. Five further witnesses and Marduk-nāṣir/Madānu-aḫḫē-iddin//Šigû’a, the scribe.


Further Information

Type and Content
Single transaction
last updated by
Julia Giessler, Aug. 1, 2025, 3:32 p.m.
Mentioned in the following publication(s)
Cocquerillat 1968