Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 791
- Museum No.
- IM 065073
- Primary Publication
- BaM 5 (1970), 193-304 19
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P489807
- Place of issue
- Uruk city
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Archive
- Šamšēa
- Period
- Early Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Ššu. 15-VII-14
- Date BCE
- 652
Digeanna
- Text Form
- Debt note ("promissory note") (uˀiltu; ina muḫḫi; ina pāni)
- Transaction Type
- not applicable
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
- Private context
- True
Content
- Paraphrase
(f)Kabtāya, Dumqāya, and Nabû-zēru-ušebši owe Erēšu/Nabû-bēlāni (E) ½ mina of silver. They will pay him 3/4 shekel (per month = 30% per year) as interest.
Mutual guarantee.
16 days of the baker’s prebend (nuḫatimmūtu) before Kanisurra are pledged as security (maškanu). No other creditor (rāšû) will dispose (šalāṭu) of it until E is paid in full (šalāmu).
3 witnesses.
Scribe: Nidintu/Šumāya.
The tablet’s excavation number is W.20032,5.
See the duplicate BaM 5 (1970), 193–304 20 (NaBBuCo 8855, https://nabucco.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/archiv/tablet/detail/8855).
- Legacy Paraphrase
Loan of silver: B1, B2 and B3 owe A ½ mina of silver. The debt will bear an (monthly) interest of 3/4 shekel (15% p.a.). B1, B2 and B3 guarantee (pūtu našû) for each other. The debt is secured by a pledge in terms of the prebend of the baker (nuhatimmūtu) before Kanisurra for 16 days. 3 witnesses and the scribe.
A = Erēšu/Nabû-bēlani; B1= Kabtāya; B2 = Dumqāya; B3 = Nabû-zēru-ušabši; Scribe = Nidintu/Šumāya
Further Information
- Type and Content
- Promissory notes ina muẖẖi
- last updated by
- Małgorzata Sandowicz, Oct. 3, 2026, 2:54 p.m.
- Imported (Person, Date)
- Melanie Gross (26/05/2016)
- Legacy NaBuCCo ID
- 5443
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- BaM 5 (1970), 193-304