Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 723
- Museum No.
- W 20032,09
- Primary Publication
- BaM 5 (1970), 193-304 23
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P489811
- Place of issue
- Uruk city
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Places mentioned on Tablet
- No place
- Archive
- Šamšēa
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Sši. 05-VIII-12
- Inferred date
- ca. 623-622 BCE (5 Sši = 3 Npl; see BaM 28 (1997), 387)
Digeanna
- Text Form
- Debt note ("promissory note") (uˀiltu; ina muḫḫi; ina pāni)
- Transaction Type
- not applicable
- Formatting
- True
- Formatting remarks
- Horizontal rulings
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
- Private context
- True
Content
- Paraphrase
Lâbâši/Gudādû owes 6 shekels of silver to Ibni-Ištar/Bēl(?)-ušallim(//Kurī) (or: Ibni-Ištar/Nabû-ušallim) (II).
An unspecified prebend performed before Nanāya is plegded as security (maškanu) from the 12th day of m.VIII onwards. The debt bears no interest and (the prebendary service) yields no surplus (utru).
3 witnesses.
Scribe: Šūzubu/Bēl-iqīša(//Šangû-[...]).
Notes
For the identification of: the creditor and the scribe, see Kessler 1991, 27-28, 30 and AfO 50 (2003/2004), 254.
- Legacy Paraphrase
Loan of silver: B owes A 6 shekels of silver. It is pledged to the creditor in lieu of paying interest (antichretic pledge). The debt is secured by a pledge in terms of a prebend (unspecified) before Nanāya beginning with the present day - the time of completion is not preserved. 3 witnesses and the scribe.
A = Ibni-Ištar/Bēl-ušallim; B = Lâbâši/Gudadu; Scribe = Šūzubu/Bēl-iqīša
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Promissory notes ina muẖẖi
- last updated by
- Małgorzata Sandowicz, Oct. 3, 2026, 3:01 p.m.
- Imported (Person, Date)
- Melanie Gross (26/05/2016)
- Legacy NaBuCCo ID
- 5447
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- BaM 28 (1997), 367-394
- BaM 5 (1970), 193-304
- Folia Orientalia 20 (1979, ersch. 1980) 175-184