Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 4269
- Museum No.
- YBC 03790
- Primary Publication
- YOS 17 291
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P305148
- Place of issue
- Šaqillatu
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Places mentioned on Tablet
- Aššurītu
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbk IV. 1-VI-8
- Date BCE
- 521
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 9 d
- Text Form
- Debt note ("promissory note") (uˀiltu; ina muḫḫi; ina pāni)
- Legal Purpose
- Lease (ana ...ūti nadānu, ṣabātu; ina pāni)
- Transaction Type
- transactional (incoming)
- Domain (Eanna)
- Agriculture
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
Content
- Paraphrase
Šamaš-iqīša/Sîn-aḫu-iddin owes (ina muḫḫi) 150;0 dates, impost of the field (imittu) of Nabû-šumu-ukīn and a date palm cultivation (za-ru-tu), at the right and the left of the (tp)Ašurrītu-canal, property (makkūru) of the Lady of Uruk and of Nanāya.
It is part of the rent (sūtu) of Gimillu/Ištar-šumu-ibni, the rent farmer (ša muḫḫi sūti) of Eanna.
ŠI will deliver (nadānu) the dates in m. VII in one instalment, in the enclosure (ina ḫaṣāri) using the measure (mašīḫu) of the Lady of Uruk together with a 1;0.2.3 "allowance"-fee (kurummatu), standard additional payments (including a load of firewood (libbi mangāgi u bilti ša ḫuṣābi)), and 15;0 choice-dates (makkasu). It is apart from 2;0 (dates) for the agricultural supervisor (gugallu).
3 witnesses and the scribe Ṣillāya/Ištar-šumu-uṣur//(Kidin-Marduk).
Further Information
- created by
- Hannes Neitzke, May 19, 2025, 10:01 a.m.
- last updated by
- Marie Young, Sept. 11, 2026, 12:25 p.m.