Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3774
- Museum No.
- W 18207,46
- Primary Publication
- AUWE 5 131
- Place of issue
- Uruk city
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbk. 38-III-20
- Date BCE
- 24/06/567
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 4 a
- Text Form
- Debt note ("promissory note") (uˀiltu; ina muḫḫi; ina pāni)
- Legal Purpose
- Issue (nadin)
- Transaction Type
- transactional (incoming)
- Domain (Eanna)
- Animal husbandry
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
Content
- Paraphrase
Undertaking to pay to the Eanna for the purchase of a calf
Nabû-kibis-šarri-uṣur, royal resident (qīpu) of the Ebabbar and 4 other men (Šamaš-…/marduk-zēru-ibni//…; Itti-enši-Nabû/Bēl-rēmanni; Šamaš-aḫu-iddin/Šamaš-…//Šangû-Šamaš; Gimil-…/Itti-Šamaš-balāṭu//Napsānu) still owe 20 shekels of silver, corresponding to the price for a suckling calf (būru šizib).
They will pay their debt to the temple in m.IV and guarantee for each other. The calf belonged to (makkūru) the temple of Ištar of Uruk and Nanāya and was purchased (nadānu, wr. na-dan) by the Ebabbar for (ana) (the offerings of) the 20th of m.III. The document was written on that same day.
Names of 4 witnesses and the scribe: Nabû-bāni-aḫi/Ibnāya//Ekur-zākir.
- Legacy Paraphrase
Undertaking to pay to the Eanna for the purchase of a calf
B1, royal commissioner (qīpu) of the Ebabbar and 4 other men (B2-5) still owe 20 shekels of silver, corresponding to the price for a suckling calf (būru šizib). They will pay their debt to the temple in Dûzu (IV) and guarantee for each other. The calf belonged to (makkūru) the temple of Ištar of Uruk and Nanāya and was purchased (nadānu, wr. na-dan) by the Ebabbar for (ana) (the offerings of) the 20th of Simān (III). The document was written on that same day. Names of 4 witnesses and the scribe: Nabû-bāni-ahi/Ibnāya//Ekur-zākir.
B1 = Nabû-kibis-šarri-uṣur, royal commissioner (qīpu) of the Ebabbar; B2 = Šamaš-…/marduk-zēru-ibni//…; B3 = Itti-enši-Nabû/Bēl-rēmanni; B4 = Šamaš-ahu-iddin/Šamaš-…//Šangû-Šamaš; B5 = Gimil-…/Itti-Šamaš-balāṭu//Napsānu
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Promissory notes ina muẖẖi
- last updated by
- Kira Awege, Feb. 13, 2026, 10:10 a.m.