Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 7279
- Museum No.
- CBS 03573
- Primary Publication
- BE 08 020
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P259946
- Place of issue
- Babylon city
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbk. 36-X-12
- Date BCE
- 21/12/569
Digeanna
- Text Form
- Debt note ("promissory note") (uˀiltu; ina muḫḫi; ina pāni)
- Legal Purpose
- Loan (ina muḫḫi)
- Second-order accounting
- True
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
Content
- Paraphrase
Bābu-iqīša/Usātu (Bi) owes (ina muḫḫi) to Enlil-šumu-imbi/Enlil-iqīša//Nazi-Enlil (Eši) 15⅔š silver, the reminder (rēḫu) of […] of a business venture (ḫarrānu). Bi will pay it back at the end of m.XI. Otherwise, he will pay 1;2.3 dates in the depot (bāb kalakki).
Also mentioned (in an unclear context): a previous debt not (u'iltu), a debt of a certain Šamaš-aḫu-iddin/…, and additional sums of silver linked to BI and Bēl-iddin.
5 witnesses and the scribe Eši.
A final note links the silver to a price of a sheep.
Further Information
- created by
- Yuval Levavi, March 4, 2026, 3:17 p.m.
- last updated by
- Yuval Levavi, April 3, 2026, 5:18 p.m.