Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 6184
- Museum No.
- YBC 03418
- Primary Publication
- YOS 6 094
- CDLI P-Identifier
- BC-017484
- Place of issue
- Bīt-bārî
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbn. 03-V-05(?)
- Date BCE
- 07/08/553
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 9 i
- Text Form
- Debt note ("promissory note") (uˀiltu; ina muḫḫi; ina pāni)
- Legal Purpose
- Debt Repayment (maḫir, eṭir)
- Transaction Type
- transactional (incoming)
- Domain (Eanna)
- Agriculture
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
Content
- Paraphrase
Impost of the ploughmen (ikkaru) from the rent-farm of Šumu-ukīn.
276(?);0 of barley, remainder of the impost (imittu) from [the ploughmen (ikkaru) or the fields (eqlu)(?)] of the Eanna, from Šumu-ukīn/Bēl-zēri//Basia (ŠU), the rent farmer (ša muḫḫi sūti) of the Eanna, among which:
- 38;3.4.3 from the rent (sūtu) of ...
- 47;0 from the rent (sūtu) of Šamaš-zēru-ibni
- 52;2 Kalbāya...
- 96;2.3 of...
- 45;0 of Nabû-zēru-ibni...
(The rents) that Nabû-iddin and Nanāya-iddin...the agents (bēl piqnēti) of ŠU, on the orders of ŠU, Zēria(/Nabû-iddin) and Nanāya-iddin(/Itti-Marduk-balāṭu), measured (emēdu), in agreement with (akī pî) the ploughmen.
They drew up (e'ēlu) a debt note (u'iltu) concerning them, at the debit of Bazuzu/Bēl-īpuš (B). He shall deliver (the impost) according to the measure of the Eanna, at the Big Waters in the rent-farm of ŠU.
(This obligation) is over and above (elat) a previous debt of the ploughmen and in addition to (elat) the barley owed by B.4 witnesses and the scribe: Balāṭu[/Mušēzib-Bēl]
Note
The total given in line 1 does not correspond to the sum of the rents listed in the text (279;3.1.3).
About Zēria and Nanāya-iddin, see Jankovic 2013, 90. The tablet belongs to the same dossier as YOS 6 78, written one month earlier, also written by Balāṭu/Mušēzib-Bēl
Further Information
- created by
- Marie Young, Nov. 11, 2025, 2:06 p.m.
- last updated by
- Marie Young, Feb. 25, 2026, 9:48 a.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Cocquerillat 1968