Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3776
- Museum No.
- W 18201,97
- Primary Publication
- AUWE 5 133
- Place of issue
- Uruk city
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- AM. 01-IX-04
- Date BCE
- 26/11/561
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 12 a
- Text Form
- Debt note ("promissory note") (uˀiltu; ina muḫḫi; ina pāni)
- Legal Purpose
- Issue (nadin)
- Transaction Type
- transactional (incoming)
- Domain (Eanna)
- Higher-order management and policies
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
Content
- Paraphrase
Undertaking to pay for goats purchased from the Eanna.
Bēl-ēṭir/Arad-Innin//Nabû-…, Innin-šumu-uṣur/Mār-Bēl-dān//Nabû-šaruḫ-ilī and Ardia/Aplāya//Nabû-šaruḫ-ilī owe 40 kor (c. 7200 l), the equivalent price (šīmu) for 38+ […] and 2 adult goats (wr. ÙZ.AL, see CAD E s.v. enzu 1a). The animals belonged to (makkuru) the temple of Ištar of Uruk and Nanāya.
The debtors undertake to deliver (nadānu) the barley in full (gamru) in m.III, according to the measure of Ištar of Uruk, bringing it to the Eanna. They guarantee for each other.
Written in the presence of (ina ušuzzi) Sîn-iddin, the royal resident (qīpu). Names of 4 witnesses and the scribe: Šumāya/Ibni-Ištar//Ašlāku
- Legacy Paraphrase
Undertaking to pay for goats purchased from the Eanna.
A1, A2 and A3 owe 40 kor (c. 7200 l), the equivalent price (šīmu) for 38+ […] and 2 adult goats (wr. ÙZ.AL, see CAD E s.v. enzu 1a). The animals belonged to (makkuru) the temple of Ištar of Uruk and Nanāya. The debtors undertake to deliver (nadānu) the barley in full (gamru) in Simān (III), according to the measure of Ištar of Uruk, bringing it to the Eanna. They guarantee for each other. Written in the presence of (ina ušuzzi) B, the royal commissioner (qīpu). Names of 4 witnesses and the scribe: Šumāya/Ibni-Ištar//Ašlāku
A1 = Bēl-ēṭir/Arad-Innin//Nabû-…; A2 = Innin-šumu-uṣur/Mār-Bēl-dān//Nabû-šaruḫ-ilī; A3 = Ardia/Aplāya//Nabû-šaruḫ-ilī; B = Sîn-iddin, royal commissioner (qīpu)
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Promissory notes ina muẖẖi
- last updated by
- Kira Awege, Feb. 13, 2026, 10:10 a.m.
- Imported (Person, Date)
- Stephania Ermidoro, Kathleen Abraham (17/09/2023)