Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 6021
- Museum No.
- YBC 03788
- Primary Publication
- YOS 6 052
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P305146
- Place of issue
- Babylon city
- Regional setting
- Babylon region
- Places mentioned on Tablet
- Across-the-River (eber nāri)
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbn. 03-VI-20
- Date BCE
- 21/09/553
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 4 m
- Text Form
- Debt note ("promissory note") (uˀiltu; ina muḫḫi; ina pāni)
- Legal Purpose
- Debt Repayment (maḫir, eṭir)
- Transaction Type
- transactional (incoming)
- Domain (Eanna)
- Storehouse management and allocation of silver
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
Content
- Paraphrase
10 minas of silver belonging to the Eanna (makkūr Bēlet Uruk u Nanāya), originally the silver (was) at the disposal of Innin-zēru-ušebši/Nabû-aḫḫē-uballiṭ//Rab-banê (IZU) and Innin-aḫḫē-iddin/Nanāya-īpuš//Kurî (IAI), is (now) owed by Anu-šumu-iddin/Šarēdu//Rab-banê (AŠI) and Ištar-zēru-ibni/Ina-tēšî-ēṭir//Rab-banê (IZI).
Of this amount, 5 minas of silver correspond to the earlier debt note (u'iltu) of the Eanna temple, owed by IZU and IAI. For it (ēlītu), AŠI and IZI will give (inamdinū) to the Lady of Uruk the merchandise (mēreštu) according to (akî) the price of the (tp)Across the River region (eber nāri).For the (remaining) 5 minas of silver, an interest rate of 20% per annum applies.
Each (debtor) acts as guarantor for the other.2 or 3 witnesses and the scribe Šamaš-aḫu-iddin/Nabû-mukīn-apli
Further Information
- created by
- Marie Young, Oct. 23, 2025, 8:52 a.m.
- last updated by
- Sarah Grosser, Dec. 12, 2025, 11:27 a.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Graslin 2009