Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 4271
- Museum No.
- YBC 03806
- Primary Publication
- YOS 17 293
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P305164
- Place of issue
- Bitqu-ša-Bēl-ēṭir
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbk IV. 1-VII-3
- 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
Nanāya-aḫu-iddin/Nabû-aḫḫē-erība and Šumāya/Nabû-kēšir owe (ina muḫḫi) 115;0 dates, impost (imittu) of the big field and 15;0 (impost) of the young palms trees (tālu), including 2;0 (dates) of Kalbāya, in total 130; (dates) for the three parts in the “thousand”-field complex (līmu) of (tp)Ḫarrātu, 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.
They will deliver (nadānu) the dates in m. VII in one installment, 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), and 13;0 choice-dates (makkasu). It is apart from 1;0 (dates) for the agricultural supervisor (gugallu). They received their sissinnu-remuneration. They guarantee for each other.
3 witnesses and the scribe Ṣillāya/Ištar-šumu-uṣur//Kidin-Marduk.
Further Information
- created by
- Hannes Neitzke, May 19, 2025, 10:03 a.m.
- last updated by
- Marie Young, Sept. 11, 2026, 12:17 p.m.