Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 4586
- Museum No.
- BM 114437
- Primary Publication
- WZKM 94 2
- Place of issue
- Uruk city
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Cam. 05-VI-02
- Date BCE
- 19/08/525
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 4 a
- Text Form
- Debt note ("promissory note") (uˀiltu; ina muḫḫi; ina pāni)
- Legal Purpose
- Loan (ina muḫḫi)
- Transaction Type
- not applicable
- Second-order accounting
- True
- Domain (Eanna)
- Higher-order management and policies
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
- Private context
- True
Content
- Paraphrase
Gimillu/Innin-šumu-ibni (G), Nabû-mukīn-zēri/Nādinu//Balāṭu and Nabû-mušētiq-uddi/Bēl-aḫḫē-iqīša//Egibi (NMU) have borrowed 1 mina of silver from Gʼs wife (f)Ilat/Nūrea ((f)I), as an interest-bearing loan (ana ḫubullu). They will pay it back according to the debt note (uʼiltu) of (f)I. Whatever profit they will make they will share in thirds. Each took a copy.
Written in the presence of (ina ašābi) (f)Inṣabtu, mother of NMU.
4 witnesses.
Scribe: Anu-pirʼu-uṣur/Šamaš-šumu-iddin//Sîn-leqe-unninnī.
The formulary of this debt note is atypical. The emic expressions ina muḫḫi and ḫarrānu “business venture” are missing.
Further Information
- created by
- Julia Giessler, May 26, 2025, 8:38 a.m.
- last updated by
- Julia Giessler, Aug. 1, 2025, 1:51 p.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- WZKM 94 (2004), 109-132.