Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
6215
Museum No.
YBC 06841
Primary Publication
YOS 6 174
CDLI P-Identifier
P307856
Place of issue
Uruk city
Regional setting
Uruk region
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
Neo-Babylonian
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Nbn. 12-VII-27
Date BCE
19/10/544

Digeanna

Van Driel Files
2 g
Text Form
Debt note ("promissory note") (uˀiltu; ina muḫḫi; ina pāni)
Legal Purpose
Payment (apil, eṭir)
Transaction Type
transactional (incoming)
Domain (Eanna)
Animal husbandry
Format of the tablet
landscape

Content

Paraphrase

4 sheep, the rest of the 6 sheep at the disposal of Nabû-īpuš/Taštu-ilī the herdsman (nāqidu) of the Lady of Uruk were led away (abāku). Šamaš-šumu-iddin/Arad-Bēl owes Eanna the remaining 4 sheep and will deliver them in m.VIII. 

In the presence of Zēria/Ibnāya//Egibi the High Priest.

3 witnesses and the scribe Balāṭu/Sîn-ibni//Rē’i-alpi

Note

Marduk-bulliṭanni, the Keeper of the Royal Box in Eanna (ša rēš šarri ša (ina) muhhi quppi ša šarri), is the first witness of the text.


Further Information

created by
Sarah Grosser, Nov. 16, 2025, 3:28 p.m.
last updated by
Sarah Grosser, June 18, 2026, 2:53 p.m.
Mentioned in the following publication(s)
BR 6 (1960)
YOS 6