Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 4277
- Museum No.
- YBC 04125
- Primary Publication
- YOS 17 299
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P305437
- Place of issue
- Kar-Eanna
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Places mentioned on Tablet
- Ālu-ša-Anu-aha-ēreš
- Kar-Eanna
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbk IV. 1-5-24
- 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
Ištar-šumu-uṣur/Silim-ilī (IŠU) owes (ina muḫḫi) 24;0 dates, impost (imittu) of the field in the irrigation district (tamirtu) of... and 18;0 dates, impost of (tp)Kar-Eanna, in total 42;0 dates, impost of the second part, 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 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, and 4;0 choice-dates (makkasu). It is apart from 2;0 (dates) for the agricultural supervisor (gugallu) and the monetary fee (kaspu ša ḫabi uḫīni). IŠU's 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, 10:08 a.m.
- last updated by
- Marie Young, Sept. 11, 2026, 2:05 p.m.