Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
3852
Museum No.
W 18202,15
Primary Publication
AUWE 11 217
Place of issue
Broken
Regional setting
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
Neo-Babylonian
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Nbk. yy-mm-dd
Inferred date
604–562 or 555–539

Digeanna

Van Driel Files
4 a
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 an amount of silver. Fragmentary.

... owes someone (whose name is also lost) a broken amount of silver: the fragmentary condition of the first lines prevent any certain reconstruction of the text. Should he fail to pay by Addar (XII), he shall bring 48 kor (c. 8640 l) of barley according to the measure of the Lady of Uruk. This delivery must take place in the Eanna, in a given month, which is lost in a lacuna. Names of 2+ witnesses.

Rest broken off. Probably to be dated in Nbk or Nbn.

 

Legacy Paraphrase

Promissory note for an amount of silver. Fragmentary.

A (broken name) owes someone (whose name is also lost) a broken amount of silver: the fragmentary condition of the first lines prevent any certain reconstruction of the text. Should he fail to pay by Addar (XII), he shall bring 48 kor (c. 8640 l) of barley according to the measure of the Lady of Uruk. This delivery must take place in the Eanna, in a given month, which is lost in a lacuna. Names of 2+ witnesses. Rest broken off. Probably to be dated in Nbk or Nbn.

A = broken name


Further Information

Type and Content
Promissory notes ina muẖẖi
last updated by
Kira Awege, Jan. 29, 2026, 4:31 p.m.
Imported (Person, Date)
Stephania Ermidoro, Kathleen Abraham (17/09/2023)