Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
3850
Museum No.
W 17995z
Primary Publication
AUWE 11 215
Place of issue
Kapri-ša-nāqidāti
Regional setting
Uruk region
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
Early Achaemenid
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Cam. yy-VI-dd
Inferred date
529–522

Digeanna

Van Driel Files
9 d
Text Form
Debt note ("promissory note") (uˀiltu; ina muḫḫi; ina pāni)
Legal Purpose
Lease (ana ...ūti nadānu, ṣabātu; ina pāni)
Transaction Type
transactional (incoming)
Domain (Eanna)
Agriculture
Format of the tablet
landscape

Content

Paraphrase

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

broken name, son of Nabû-tūru-līšir owes a broken amount of dates (to Ardia, son of Nabû-bāni-ahi, descendant of Rīmūt-Ea), 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 Ardia, son of Nabû-bāni-ahi, descendant of Rīmūt-Ea. Rest broken off. The obverse, which is in fragmentary conditions, records the name of at least 1 witness.

 

Legacy Paraphrase

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

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 A. Rest broken off. The obverse, which is in fragmentary conditions, records the name of at least 1 witness.

A = Ardia/Nabû-bāni-ahi//Rīmūt-Ea; B = broken name/Nabû-tūru-līšir


Further Information

Type and Content
Promissory notes ina muẖẖi
last updated by
Kira Awege, Dec. 31, 2025, 1:56 p.m.
Imported (Person, Date)
Stephania Ermidoro, Kathleen Abraham (17/09/2023)