Basic Metadata

NaBuCCo ID
8362
Museum No.
YBC 03787
Primary Publication
YOS 6 238
CDLI P-Identifier
https://cdli.earth/P30514
Place of issue
Uruk city
Regional setting
Uruk region
Archive
Eanna temple
Period
Neo-Babylonian
Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
Nbn. 9-XII-16
Date BCE
07/03/546

Digeanna

Van Driel Files
4 a
Text Form
Debt note ("promissory note") (uˀiltu; ina muḫḫi; ina pāni)
Legal Purpose
Debt Repayment (maḫir, eṭir)
Transaction Type
transactional (incoming)
Domain (Eanna)
Higher-order management and policies
Format of the tablet
landscape

Content

Paraphrase

Record of a debt

2 minas of silver belonging to Ṣillāya/Nabû-iddin (Ṣ), owed (ina muḫḫi) by Nabû-šumu-ēreš/Mušallim-Marduk (NŠE). 

1 ½ minas and 5 ⅓  shekels of silver belonging to  Ṣ owed by Gimillu/Marduk-zēru-ibni (G). 

A total of 3 ½ minas and 5 ⅓ shekels of silver constitutes the outstanding balance due to Eanna from Ṣ. The previous debt notes concerning this amount have been taken and checked (našû + kullumu) by Nabû-aḫu-iddin (NAI), Itti-Nabû-balāṭu (INB), the sons of NŠE, and G. 

Concerning the 13 minas owed by Marduk-šumu-līšir/Šumu-ukīn and Marduk-šumu-uṣur/Bēlšunu to Ṣ. 1½ minas and 5⅓ shekels of silver shall be repaid to Eanna. 

When the debt notes will have been paid, the sons of NŠE: NAI and INB will give in exchange the debt notes to Eanna. 

In the presence of

Bēl-uballiṭ/Nabû-balāssu-iqbi//Ea-eppeš-ilī, the zazakku-official

Nabû-šarru-uṣur, the Royal Overseer of Eanna (ša rēš šarri bēl piqitti)

Gabbi-ilī-šarru-uṣur, the Royal Resident of Eanna (qīpu)

Ṭābia/Nabû-nādin-šumi//Ḫunzû, the Governor (šākin ṭēmi) of Uruk

5 witnesses and the scribe: Nādinu/Nergal-ina-tēšî-ēṭir//Sîn-balāṭu

 


Further Information

Type and Content
Promissory notes ina muẖẖi
created by
Kira Awege, July 1, 2026, 8:23 a.m.
last updated by
Kira Awege, July 1, 2026, 8:23 a.m.