Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 7009
- Museum No.
- FLP 1583
- Primary Publication
- Dillard 1975
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P460091
- Place of issue
- Bīt-Šama'-il
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbn. 09-IX-22
- Date BCE
- 09/12/547
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 4 k
- Text Form
- Debt note ("promissory note") (uˀiltu; ina muḫḫi; ina pāni)
- Legal Purpose
- Work (ana ēpišānūti nadānu; also ina muḫḫi)
- Transaction Type
- transactional (outgoing)
- Domain (Eanna)
- Storehouse management and allocation of silver
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
Content
- Paraphrase
Nabû-mušētiq-uddi/Nergal-ibni and his brother Kidinnu/Nergal-ibni owe Eanna 5 shekels of silver. Until the end of m.[...] they shall dig 500 (cubits) of terrain, creating a ditch with a sole of 3 cubits and a crown of 5, from the (tp)Canal of Ištar towards (tp)Bīt-Šamaʼil, and give [...] to [...]. Mutual guarantee.
Written in the presence of Nabû-šarru-uṣur, Royal Overseer (ša rēš šarri bēl piqitti) of Eanna.
3 witnesses.
Scribe: Šumāya/Ibni-Ištar//Ašlāku
Bīt-Šamaʼil is called estate (šīhu) of the Lady of Uruk.
Further Information
- created by
- Julia Giessler, Feb. 2, 2026, 9:22 a.m.
- last updated by
- Michael Jursa, April 1, 2026, 12:42 p.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Dillard 1975