YBC 04082

Balāṭu/Innin-zēru-ušebši owes Eanna 19;0 dates, the impost of the field divided into 2 sections (bābu) located by the (tp)Royal Canal (nār šarri) and the alloted property (bīt ritti) of Ištar-zēru-ibni, part of the rent (sūtu) of (the rent farmer, ša muḫḫi sūti) Ardia/Nabû-bān-aḫi//Rēmūt-Ea.

B will deliver these dates in m.VII at the enclosure (ḫaṣāru), in the measure of the Lady of Uruk, in one installment. With each 1;0 dates, he will give 0;0.1.4 ½ as the “mortar” (kiṣir esitti)-tax and the “life for Bēl” (balāṭ Bēl, balāṭu and Bēl)-tax. He will also give standard additional products.

3 witnesses.

Scribe: Šamaš-mukīn-apli/Eanna-nādin-šumi//Bābūtu.

Promissory note of Balāṭu/Ištar-zēru-šubš to pay 19 kurru of dates with the usual byproducts, the estimated surplus for that year of an Eanna palm grove on the royal canal with the status of bīt ritti, of the fields belonging to Ardiya/Nabû-bān-aḫi//Rēmūt-Ea, to be paid by month VII. It must also be proven to Balāṭu and Bēl-eṭēri-Šamaš that Sūqāya paid them 18 kurru of dates and a pending debt of 5 shekels of silver is acknowledged. Three witnesses and Šamaš-mukīn-apli/Eanna-nādin-šumi//Bābūtu, the scribe.