Tablet W 18044a

NaBuCCo ID 3713
Museum No. W 18044a
CDLI P-Identifier
Place of issue
Type and content Promissory note ina muẖẖi
Archive
Period Each
Year BCE 524
Editio princeps AUWE 5 070
Paraphrase

Promissory note for assessed field rent (imittu), to be delivered in dates.

B owes a broken amount of dates to A, the assessed field rent on land (imitti eqli) whose details are lost in a lacuna of the tablet but which is said to be the property (makkūru) of the Lady of Uruk and Nanāya and lies within the rent-farm (sūtu) of (the farmer-general) A. B will bring him these dates in Tašrīt (VII) in courtyard (haṣāru); the total amount will be delivered according to the measure of the Lady of Uruk, in one instalment. For each kor of dates, he shall give 0;1.4 ½ kor (c. 63 l) as payment for the kiṣir esitti-impost and the impost for the life of Bēl (balāṭu ana Bēl), a load of firewood, (the customary amount of) spathes (tuhallu), offshoots (liblibbu) and fibres (mangagu). In addition, he will also give 2 kor (360 l.) of dates for the agricultural supervisor (gugallu). Names of 4 witnesses and the scribe: Šamaš-kīn-aplu/Eanna-nādin-šumi//Bābūtu.

A = Ardia/Nabû-bān-ahi//Rēmūt-Ea; B = Nabû-ahhē-iddin/Bēl-usātu//Bēl-usātu

 

Transliteration
Babylonian Date (year-month-day): Cam. yy-VI-13+