Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 4274
- Museum No.
- YBC 04058
- Primary Publication
- YOS 17 296
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P305370
- 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-5
- 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/Ardia (NAI) owes (ina muḫḫi) 4;2.3 dates, impost of the field of young palm trees (imittu eqli ša tālu) at the canal sluice (bitqu), 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.
He 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), and 1;0 choice-dates (makkasu).
His sissinnu-remuneration has been paid (eṭēru).
3 witnesses and the scribe Ṣillāya/Ištar-šumu-uṣur//Kidin-Marduk.
Further Information
- created by
- Hannes Neitzke, May 19, 2025, 10:06 a.m.
- last updated by
- Marie Young, Sept. 11, 2026, 1:21 p.m.