Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
4903
Museum No.
YBC 11265
Primary Publication
YOS 19 081
CDLI P-Identifier
P311442
Place of issue
Šīhu
Regional setting
Uruk region
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
Neo-Babylonian
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Nbn. yy-VI-11
Inferred date
556-549

Digeanna

Van Driel Files
9 d
Text Form
Debt note ("promissory note") (uˀiltu; ina muḫḫi; ina pāni)
Legal Purpose
Work (ana ēpišānūti nadānu; also ina muḫḫi)
Transaction Type
transactional (incoming)
Domain (Eanna)
Agriculture
Format of the tablet
landscape

Content

Paraphrase

Ištar-zēru-ibni/Nergal-zēru-ušabši 32;0 kor of dates, impost (imittu) from the temple rentfarm (sūtu) of the rentfarmers (ša muḫḫi sūti) Šumu-ukīn/Bēl-zēri//Basia and Kalbāya/Iqīšāya in the irrigation district (tamirtu) of Aššurītu. Usual clauses about payment in the temple measure (mašīḫu) in m.VII with standard additional payments about the sisinnu-remuneration (sisinnu). Earlier promissory notes are being excluded.

3 witnesses

Scribe: Balāṭu/Mušēzib-Bēl

The document is issued in the irrigation district of Aššurītu, temple estate (šīḫu)

dating is inferred on basis of prosopography


Further Information

created by
Matthias Adelhofer, June 25, 2025, 7:54 a.m.
last updated by
Matthias Adelhofer, July 14, 2025, 12:18 p.m.