Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3861
- Museum No.
- W 18213,26
- Primary Publication
- AUWE 11 226
- Place of issue
- Broken
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbk. 34?-mm-dd
- Inferred date
- 571
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 12 a
- Text Form
- Debt note ("promissory note") (uˀiltu; ina muḫḫi; ina pāni)
- Legal Purpose
- unclear (...)
- Transaction Type
- unclear
- Format of the tablet
- unclear
Content
- Paraphrase
Undetermined legal text, possibly a promissory note. Fragmentary.
The tablet is in such a poor status of preservation so that it is not possible to determine its exact legal nature.
The preserved part mentions various deliveries (of silver?) that one or more debtors (a gap on the tablet prevents the reader from knowing his/their identity) must hand over: 20 shekels in Dûzu (IV) (and?) 29 shekels in Kislīm (IX). In Simān (III) of Nebuchadnezzar’s 35th regnal year the delivery of an unknown amount of barley, which must follow the measure of the Lady of Uruk, is set. It is unclear whether this refers to an additional delivery, or to a conversion of the silver deliveries in natura.
The document was drafted in the presence of (ina ušuzzi) Nabû-šarru-uṣur, the Royal Overseer (ša rēš šarri bēl piqitti).
Names of 2+ witnesses; the lower part of the tablet is broken, therefore it is not possible to state if there were other names of witnesses and of a scribe, nor if the text was dated.
Witnesses mentioned:
Bānia/Tabnea//Baʾiru
Bēl-aḫḫē-īqiša/Mušēzib-Marduk//...
Nādinu/...//...
- Legacy Paraphrase
Undetermined legal text, possibly a promissory note. Fragmentary.
The tablet is in such a poor status of preservation so that it is not possible to determine its exact legal nature. The preserved part mentions various deliveries (of silver?) that one or more debtors (a gap on the tablet prevents the reader from knowing his/their identity) must hand over: 20 shekels in Dûzu (IV) (and?) 29 shekels in Kislīm (IX). In Simān (III) of Nebuchadnezzar’s 35th regnal year the delivery of an unknown amount of barley, which must follow the measure of the Lady of Uruk, is set. It is unclear whether this refers to an additional delivery, or to a conversion of the silver deliveries in natura. The document was drafted in the presence of (ina ušuzzi) Nabû-šarru-uṣur, the courtier (ša rēš šarri). Names of 2+ witnesses; the lower part of the tablet is broken, therefore it is not possible to state if there were other names of witnesses and of a scribe, nor if the text was dated.
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Indeterminate legal texts
- last updated by
- Kira Awege, Jan. 29, 2026, 4:52 p.m.
- Imported (Person, Date)
- Stephania Ermidoro, Kathleen Abraham (17/09/2023)