Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3777
- Museum No.
- W 18207,32
- Primary Publication
- AUWE 5 134
- Place of issue
- Uruk city
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Dar I. 10-mm-02
- Date BCE
- 512
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
- unclear
Content
- Paraphrase
Undertaking to pay silver from the temple’s treasury to a married woman. Fragmentary.
.../Balāṭu owes ½ mina of stamped(?) silver (kaspu ša ginni), taken from the income (irbu) of the treasury (arannu), to Ṭābatu/…//Amēl-Sîn, wife of Nabû-ušabši/…//Dēkû .
He undertakes to deliver (nadānu) the entire sum to Ṭābatu/…//Amēl-Sîn (name is reconstructed) in a month that is lost in a lacuna. Rest of the obverse broken off. Names of 4 witnesses and the scribe: Nabû-ikṣur/Šamaš-…//Dēkû
- Legacy Paraphrase
Undertaking to pay silver from the temple’s treasury to a married woman. Fragmentary.
B owes ½ mina of stamped(?) silver (kaspu ša ginni), taken from the income (irbu) of the treasury (arannu), to fA, C’s wife. He undertakes to deliver (nadānu) the entire sum to fA (name is reconstructed) in a month that is lost in a lacuna. Rest of the obverse broken off. Names of 4 witnesses and the scribe: Nabû-ikṣur/Šamaš-…//Dēkû
fA = Ṭābatu/…//Amēl-Sîn, wife of B; B = broken name/Balāṭu; C = Nabû-ušabši/…//Dēkû
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Promissory notes ina muẖẖi
- last updated by
- Kira Awege, Feb. 13, 2026, 10:10 a.m.