Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 4275
- Museum No.
- YBC 03799
- Primary Publication
- YOS 17 297
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P305157
- Place of issue
- Bitqu-ša-Bēl-ēṭir
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Places mentioned on Tablet
- Bāb-Bitāqu
- 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
Lâbâši/Nanāya-aḫu-iddin (L) owes (ina muḫḫi) 160;0 dates, impost of the field (imittu ša eqli) at the gate of 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 19;0 choice-dates (makkasu).
L’s sissinnu-remuneration of 25;0 dates has been paid (eṭēru). It is apart from 1;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, 10:07 a.m.
- last updated by
- Marie Young, Sept. 11, 2026, 1:26 p.m.