Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
6242
Museum No.
YBC 04133
Primary Publication
YOS 6 242
CDLI P-Identifier
P305445
Place of issue
No place
Regional setting
Uruk region
Places mentioned on Tablet
Ekur-dīni
Hanlibbi
Sealand
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
Neo-Babylonian
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Nbn. 11-I-20+
Date BCE
28/04/545

Digeanna

Van Driel Files
9 e
Text Form
Debt note ("promissory note") (uˀiltu; ina muḫḫi; ina pāni)
Legal Purpose
Loan (ina muḫḫi)
Transaction Type
transactional (incoming)
Domain (Eanna)
Agriculture
Format of the tablet
landscape

Content

Paraphrase

Records the arrival of dates that Šumu-ukīn was supposed to pay but had not yet delivered; the Eanna therefore turned directly to the tenants of the land. According to B. Janković (2013, 183) this text was written after the death of Šumu-ukīn.

130;0 dates from the rent-farm of Šumu-ukīn/Bēl-zēri (ŠU), in arrears as stated in a debt note (u'iltu) of Nabû-ēṭir/Šūzubu (NE), written in Nbn 7.V. Lâbâši-Marduk/Šūzubu (LM) acted as guarantor for the payment (pūt ēṭir našû).

390;0 dates from the rent-farm of ŠU and Kalbāya(/Iqīša) for the years Nbn. 8, 9, and 10 in arrears as stated in a debt note of Nbn 8.VII owed by LM to ŠU.

Total: 520;0 date from the dates orchards of (tp)Ḫanlibbi and (tp)Ekur-dīni at the disposal of LM.
Accordingly, 3 shekels 1/4 1/8 of gold of naltar-quality, were paid at an exchange rate of 12:1, corresponding to 121;2.3 of dates, in Nbn 10.IV.24

Then LM and NE gave 6;0 dates of Dilmun, in the measure of the Eanna, in the (tp)Sealand to Itti-Anu-balāṭu/... who brought them to the Eanna, at the rate of 0;2 dates of Dilmun: 1 shekel, for a total of 15 shekels silver.

LM and NE paid 1 mina, 18 shekels of silver in Nbn.10.XI. for [the purchase] of Dilmun dates in the (tp)Sealand to Anu-šumu-ibni/Labaši. 
They also paid 6 1/2 shekels of silver as a present (qištu) in Nbn 10 to Innin-...., the Overseer of the Dilmun dates (ša muḫḫi asnê)
Finally, LM and NE paid 2 shekels to Kidinnu, the Aramaic scribe (sēpiru) of the king, who had come to measure the fields.

Total: 1 2/3! mina 1 1/2 shekels of silver for 270;2.5.2 dates
Grand total: 392;0.2.3 dates (reimbursed). 
Remaining: 127;4.3.3 dates at the disposal of LM (for which) a debt note was issued against him.


Further Information

created by
Marie Young, Nov. 20, 2025, 2:33 p.m.
last updated by
Sarah Grosser, Jan. 30, 2026, 4:14 p.m.