Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 4264
- Museum No.
- YBC 04049
- Primary Publication
- YOS 17 286
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P305361
- Place of issue
- No place
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Places mentioned on Tablet
- Gadētu
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbk IV. 1-V-16
- Date BCE
- 521
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 9 d
- Text Form
- Debt note ("promissory note") (uˀiltu; ina muḫḫi; ina pāni)
- Legal Purpose
- Debt Repayment (maḫir, eṭir)
- Transaction Type
- transactional (incoming)
- Domain (Eanna)
- Agriculture
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
Content
- Paraphrase
Šamaš-zēru-iddin/Ištar-aḫu-iddin//Bā'iru (ŠZI) and Šamaš-uballiṭ/Anu-šumu-ibni//Bā'iru (ŠU) owe (ina muḫḫi) 43;0 dates, the impost (imittu) on the field (and) the house of (tp)Gadētu, property (makkūru) of the Lady of Uruk and of Nanāya. It is part of the rental payment (sūtu) of Gimillu/Ištar-šumu-ibni, the rent farmer (ša muḫḫi šūti) of the Lady of Uruk.
ŠZI and ŠU will deliver (nadānu) these dates according to the measure (mašīḫu) of the Lady of Uruk in one installment in the enclosure (ina ḫaṣari), together with 1;0.2.3 "allowance"-fee (kurummatu), the standard additional products (and also a load of firewood (libbi mangāgi u bilti ša ḫuṣābi)). It is apart from 1;0 dates for the agricultural supervisor (gugallu). They guarantee (našû) for each other. ŠZI received (eṭēru) the sissinnu-remuneration.
4 witnesses and the scribe Ṣillāya/Ištar-šumu-uṣur//Kidin-Marduk.
Further Information
- created by
- Hannes Neitzke, May 19, 2025, 9:57 a.m.
- last updated by
- Marie Young, Sept. 11, 2026, 9:39 a.m.