Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 8363
- Museum No.
- IM 065084
- Primary Publication
- BaM 5 (1970), 193-304 17
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P489824
- Place of issue
- No place
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Places mentioned on Tablet
- Uruk city
- Archive
- Šamšēa
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- XXX. -----
- Inferred date
- After Nbk 12.VII.17. / 02.11.593 BCE
Digeanna
- Text Form
- Sammeltafel (...)
- Legal Purpose
- Loan (ina muḫḫi)
- Transaction Type
- not applicable
- Second-order accounting
- True
- Formatting
- True
- Formatting remarks
- Two columns each on the obverse and reverse; horizontal rulings; presence or absence of vertical rulings separating columns is not indicated in the edition
- Format of the tablet
- portrait
- Private context
- True
Navico
- Theme
- Labour tasks & work status
- Slave/Oblate status
- Social networks & circles
- Oblate/Slave Role
- Is sold (slave) (passive)
Content
- Paraphrase
A Sammeltafel containing 15 promissory notes, issued in Uruk between the 6th year of „the closing of the gate” (edēl bābi) and Nbk 12.
I (= A). Iddin-Nabû/Amīl-Nanāya (IN) owes 48 shekels of silver to Marduk-nāṣir/Nabû-ušallim(//Šamšēa)
The interest is set at the 10 shekels per mina of silver, starting from the 1st day of m.VI. All belongings of IN are pledged as security (maškanu).
3 witnesses.
Scribe: Marduk-nāṣir/Iqīšāya.
Npl 18.VI.01 (05.08.606 BCE).
II (= B). Ina-tēšî-ēṭir/Amīl-Nanāya (ITE) owes 30 shekels of silver to Marduk-nāṣir/Nabû-ušallim(//Šamšēa) (MN).
The interest is set at the 10 shekels per mina of silver, starting from the 1st day of m.VII. All belongings of ITE are pledged as security. No other creditor shall dispose of them until MN has been paid back his silver.
3 witnesses.
Scribe: Nabû-nādin-šumi/Marduk-erība.
Npl 20.VI.13 (25.08.606 BCE).
III (= C). Nabû-šumu-uṣur/Nabû-ušallim(//Šamšēa) owes 12 shekels of silver to Marduk-nāṣir/Nabû-ušallim(//Šamšēa).
1 ¼ day of a baker’s prebend (nuḫatimmūtu) performed before Kanisurra is pledged as security. The debt bears no interest and the prebendary service yields no prebendary income (pappasu).
1 witness.
Scribe: Nabû-zēru-iqīša/Ēzu-u-pāšir.
Npl 19.X.29 (17.01.606 BCE).
IV (= D). Nabû-šumu-uṣur/Nabû-ušallim(//Šamšēa) owes 11 shekels of silver to Marduk-nāṣir/Nabû-ušallim(//Šamšēa). Šumu-ukīn(/Nabû-ušallim//Šamšēa) guarantees for (the repayment) of 6 ¼ shekels thereof.
The interest is set at the 8 shekels per mina of silver, starting from the 1st day of m.III.
3 witnesses.
Scribe: Nergal-ušēzib/Nādinu(//Šumu-libši, see AnOr 8, 4: 10).
Nbk. 03.III.11 (11.06.600 BCE).
V (= E). Bēl-zēri/Bēl-iddin (BZ) owes 12 shekels of silver to Marduk-nāṣir/Nabû-ušallim(//Šamšēa) (MN).
Eanna-būdia(= Itti-Eanna-būdia, see BIN 1, 164), a slave of BZ, is pledged as security. The debt bears no interest and there is no rent (idu) (for the slave) until MN has been paid back his silver.
3 witnesses.
Scribe: Marduk-šāpik-zēri/Nabû-balāssu-iqbi.
Nbk. 05.IV.29 (07.07.600 BCE).
VI (= F). Nabû-kēšir/Līdānu (NK) owes 15 shekels of silver to Marduk-nāṣir/Nabû-ušallim(//Šamšēa) (MN).
The interest is set at the 1 shekels per mina of silver, starting from the 7th day of m.VIb. All belongings of NK are pledged as security since Npl 20. No other creditor shall dispose of them until MN has been paid back his silver.
2 witnesses.
Scribe: Nabû-mukīn-apli/Na’id-Marduk//Sîn-leqe-unninnī.
Nbk 05.VIb.07 (12.09.600 BCE).
VII (= G). Mušallim-Marduk/Nergal-nāṣir (MM) owes 51(?) shekels of silver to Marduk-nāṣir/Nabû-ušallim(//Šamšēa).
It is an interest-free loan (ḫubuttu) during the 1st year. Afterwards the interest is set at 9 shekels per mina of silver. All belongings of MM are pledged as security.
1 witness.
Scribe: Innin-šumu-ibni/Marduk-nāṣir.
Nbk 09.V.21 (13.08.596 BCE).
VIII (= H). Innin-šumu-uṣur/Nanāya-aḫu-iddin owes 9 shekels of silver to Marduk-nāṣir/Nabû-ušallim(//Šamšēa).
The debt will be repaid in Uruk according to the exchange rate (maḫīru) of m.VIII, which is 0;0.2 of dates per 1 shekel of silver.
Scribe: Mušallim-Marduk/Nergal-nāṣir.
Nbk 09.XII.16 (02.04.595 BCE).
IX (= I). Marduk-erība/Nabû-nāṣir (ME) owes 50 shekels of silver to Nabû-šumu-līšir/Marduk-nāṣir(//Šamšēa) (NŠL).
Marduk-nāṣir(/Nabû-ušallim//Šamšēa), father of NŠL, had given this silver to Nabû-nāṣir, father of ME, for (paying) the price of (the slave), Ša-Bēl-lišlim.
The interest is set at the 7 shekels per mina of silver per year, starting from the 2nd day of m.XI. All belongings of ME are pledged as security.
4 witnesses.
Scribe: Mušēzib-Marduk/Nabû-zēru-ibni//Rīm-Anu.
Nbk 11.XI.02 (27.01.593 BCE).
X (= J). Nabû-šumu-uṣur/Nabû-ušallim(//Šamšēa) (NŠU) owes 150 shekels of silver to Nabû-šumu-līšir/Marduk-nāṣir(//Šamšēa) (NŠL).
Bēl-išdīa-ukīn, a slave of NŠU, is pledged as security. He shall daily grind (ṭênu) 0;0.1 of flour (qēmu) and give it to NŠL until he has been paid back his silver.
If a debt note about 34 shekels of silver owed by NŠU to Marduk-nāṣir(/Nabû-ušallim//Šamšēa), father of NŠL, turns up, it will be considered invalid (ḫepû).
4 witnesses.
Scribe: Aplāya/Marduk-zēru-ibni.
Nbk 10.XII.29 (04.04.594 BCE).
XI (= L). Mušallim-Marduk/Nabû-šumu-uṣur(//Šamšēa) (MM) owes 10 shekels of silver to Nabû-šumu-līšir/Marduk-nāṣir(//Šamšēa).
The interest is set at the 10 shekels per mina of silver, starting from the 20th day of m.VIb. All belongings of MM are pledged as security.
2 witnesses.
Scribe: Nergal-iddin/Dummuqu.
Nbk 07.VIba.20 (04.10.598 BCE).
XII (= M). Nergal-ibni/Ša-Nabû-šū owes 0;3.2 of barley to Nabû-šumu-līšir/Marduk-nāṣir(//Šamšēa).
Payable in m.IV in Uruk.
2 witnesses.
Scribe: Kudurru/Rēmūtu.
Nbk 08.XII.08 (12.03.596 BCE).
XIII (= N). Nabû-zēru-ibni/Nabû-unammir (NZI) owes 5;0 of barley to Nabû-šumu-līšir/Marduk-nāṣir(//Šamšēa) (NŠL).
It is an interest-free loan. Payable in m.IV in Uruk at the gate to the underground store (kalakku).
NŠL will also pay back 0;3.2 seeds, which NZI will give him as a loan from his own seeds. NZI guarantees for his share in the harvest (šibšu) from (their?) plot of land (qaqqaru).
1 witness (or more; the original Vorlage was broken, ḫepû)
Scribe: Kudurru/Rēmūtu.
Nbk 12.VII.17 (02.11.593 BCE).
XIV (= O). Arad-Innin/Bēlšunu (AI) owes 200 bundles of reeds to Marduk-nāṣir/Nabû-ušallim(//Šamšēa).
Payable in m.XII. Afterwards an interest is set at 20 reeds per 100 reeds.
2 witnesses.
Scribe: Kudurru/Rēmūtu.
Nbk 04.IX.13 (27.11.601 BCE).
XV (= P). Ibnāya/Bulluṭu (I) and Marduk-zēru-ibni/Nabû-zēru-ušebši (MZI) owe 58 shekels of silver to Nabû-ušallim/Bēl-iddin(//Šamšēa) (NU).
6 ½ days of a baker’s prebend performed before Kanissura in m.II are pledged as security. No other creditor shall dispose of them.
NU will perform the prebendary service (resēnu), except for 1 ½ days per year, on which I and MZI will perform it. The debt bears no interest and the prebend yields no profit (utru).
5 witnesses.
Scribe: Nabû-šumu-ukīn/Aḫḫēa.
06.XI.06 (6th year of "the closing of the gate", ca. 621-620 BCE = Npl 5 and Sši 7; see BaM 28 (1997), 379).
Notes
The identifications of the members of the Šamšēa family is based on BaM 5 (1970): 194-197.
Further Information
- created by
- Piotr Turowski, July 2, 2026, 9:17 p.m.
- last updated by
- Piotr Turowski, Sept. 25, 2026, 5:20 p.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- AUWE 8
- BaM 28 (1997), 367-394
- BaM 5 (1970), 193-304
- Folia Orientalia 20 (1979, ersch. 1980) 175-184
- Jursa 2010