Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3919
- Museum No.
- WHM 1560
- Primary Publication
- Sack 1994 (Documents) 04
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P421412
- Place of issue
- No place
- Regional setting
- Uruk city
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- XXX. 02-X-17
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 7 a
- Text Form
- Note (...)
- Legal Purpose
- Loan (ina muḫḫi)
- Transaction Type
- transactional (outgoing)
- Domain (Eanna)
- Craft production (non-cult related)
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
Content
- Paraphrase
The goldsmith Šadûnu owes ½ mina ½ shekels gold for the coating (mandītu) of […], 14 šulpu-vessels (and) 2 ḫu-pu-[…] (unclear). From this (ina libbi) gold, 12 shekels gold are for the coating of […] of day [x] (and) 18 ½ shekels gold are for the property (nikkassu). The date formula lacks the king's name.
- Legacy Paraphrase
Promissory note for gold. Dated (no RN, but probably Npl.)
A, the goldsmith (kutimmu), owes (ina muḫḫi) 30½ shekel of gold, mountings (mandītu) of [...], 14 šulpu-vessels, and 2 […]. From this (ina libbi) gold, 12 shekels are mountings of ... for day x, and 18½ shekels, from the treasury (makkūru).
A= Šadûnu (/Ubil?-šumu), goldsmith (kutimmu), see Payne 2007, 253f.
Further Information
- last updated by
- Melanie Groß, Nov. 25, 2025, 4:18 p.m.
- Imported (Person, Date)
- Yuval Levavi, Kathleen Abraham (12/09/2023)