Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3853
- Museum No.
- W 18210,11
- Primary Publication
- AUWE 11 218
- Place of issue
- Uruk city
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbk. 33-VI-22+x
- Date BCE
- 572
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 4 a
- Text Form
- Debt note ("promissory note") (uˀiltu; ina muḫḫi; ina pāni)
- Legal Purpose
- Debt Repayment (maḫir, eṭir)
- Transaction Type
- transactional (incoming)
- Domain (Eanna)
- Higher-order management and policies
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
Content
- Paraphrase
Debt novation.
The tablet records the transfer of a debt amounting to [x] minas and 20 shekels of silver, what remains (rēḫtu, wr. ina re-hi) (to be paid) for sheep and goats (ṣēnu) and wool, property (makkuru) of the Lady of Uruk and Nanāya, originally charged against (ina muḫḫi) .../Nabû-zēru-ukīn.
This tablet acknowledges that such debt is (from now on) charged against Marduk-ēṭir/Arad-…, descendant of Nabû-zēru-ukīn and .../Marduk: they will give the silver in a given month, which is lost in a lacuna. Their entire property is the pledge (maškanu) for the Lady of Uruk, until they will hand over the silver to the temple. They guarantee for each other.
Names of 4 witnesses and the scribe: Nabû-bēlšunu.
- Legacy Paraphrase
Debt novation.
The tablet records the transfer of a debt amounting to [x] minas and 20 shekels of silver, what remains (rēhtu, wr. ina re-hi) (to be paid) for sheep and goats (ṣēnu) and wool, property (makkuru) of the Lady of Uruk and Nanāya, originally charged against (ina muhhi) A. This tablet acknowledges that such debt is (from now on) charged against B1 and B2: they will give the silver in a given month, which is lost in a lacuna. Their entire property is the pledge (maškanu) for the Lady of Uruk, until they will hand over the silver to the temple. They guarantee for each other. Names of 4 witnesses and the scribe: Nabû-bēlšunu.
A = broken name/Nabû-zēru-ukīn; B1 = Marduk-ēṭir/Arad-…//Nabû-zēru-ukīn; B2 = broken name/Marduk
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Promissory notes ina muẖẖi
- last updated by
- Kira Awege, Jan. 29, 2026, 4:32 p.m.
- Imported (Person, Date)
- Stephania Ermidoro, Kathleen Abraham (17/09/2023)