Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 689
- Museum No.
- CMAG 1922.90.04
- Primary Publication
- JRAS (1921), 383-387
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P458911
- Place of issue
- Uruk city
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Sši. 07-V-09
- Inferred date
- ca. 620 BCE; the date is designated as "during the closing of the gates" (ina edēl bābi)
Digeanna
- Text Form
- Debt note ("promissory note") (uˀiltu; ina muḫḫi; ina pāni)
- Legal Purpose
- Loan (ina muḫḫi)
- Transaction Type
- not applicable
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
- Private context
- True
Content
- Paraphrase
Upāqu/[…] (U) owes 1 mina of silver to Bēl-zēri/Aplāya (BZ).
The interest is set at 10 shekels per mina yearly, starting from the date of the document’s issue.
The houses of Aplāya/Upāqu and Nabû-šumu-ukīn/Upāqu, sons of U, are pledged as security (maškanu) to BZ. No other creditor (rāšû) will dispose (šalāṭu) of them them until BZ has been fully paid (šalāmu) the silver.
3 witnesses.
Scribe: Marduk-bēl-ilāni/Nabû-zēru-iddin.
- Legacy Paraphrase
Loan of silver: B owes A 1 mina of silver. Beginning with the present day, the debt will bear a yearly interest of 10 shekels per mina (16.7% p.a.). The houses of C1 and C2, both sons of B, are placed as a pledge. 3 witnesses and the scribe.
A = Bēl-zēri/Aplāya; B = Upāqu/[…]; C1 = Aplāya/Upāqu; C2 = Nabû-šumu-ukīn; Scribe = Marduk-bēl-ilāni/Nabû-zēru-iddin
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Promissory notes ina muẖẖi
- last updated by
- Piotr Turowski, May 28, 2026, 1:49 p.m.
- Imported (Person, Date)
- Melanie Gross (26/05/2016)
- Legacy NaBuCCo ID
- 5669
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- AfO 24 (1973), 122-127
- BaM 28 (1997), 367-394
- JRAS (1921), 383-387