Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 3973
- Museum No.
- Private (CUSAS 28)
- CDLI P-Identifier
- Place of issue
- Yāhūdu
- Type and Content
- Promissory notes ina muẖẖi
- Archive
- Yahud
- Dossier
- None
- Period
- NB
- Year BCE
- None
- Editio princeps
- CUSAS 28
Content
- Paraphrase
Promissory note for barley and silver.
The document starts by stating that B owes barley (2 kor, c. 360 liters) and silver (2 shekels) of 87% fineness to A and continues by stipulating the terms for repayment. It is agreed that he will pay his debt in the 2nd month i.e. at the next barley harvest. The barley should be delivered together with a 26.6% surplus (lit. 0;1.2 kor per kor of indebted barley, or 48 liters per 180 liters. The silver is to be paid back in barley according to the current barley price at the time of repayment. The debtor had pledged a field eight days earlier (namely on the 2nd of the current month; differently Pearce & Wunsch 2014, 100f.) according to a previous document. It concerns a field (([eqe]l?-šu) that belongs to his quiver-holding (bīt azanni) and which is further described in general terms as follows: “whatever and as much of it there is within the city or outside of it (mimma šumšu [ša āli] u ṣēri mala bašû). The document is only partially dated in so far that the day and month are specified, but not the year in which it was written. Names of 3 witnesses and scribe: Līšir/[Nabû]-balāssu-iqbi//Sîn-šadûnu.
A = Bēl-šarru-uṣur/Nubaya; B = Ṣidqī-Yāw/Šillem
- Transliteration
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbk. yy-XII-10
further information
- Imported (Person, Date)
- Kathleen Abraham (05/09/2023)
- Legacy NaBuCCo ID
- None