Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 8395
- Museum No.
- CULC 614
- Primary Publication
- Studia Mesopotamica 5 (2001), 241-369 C.I.4
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P421701
- Place of issue
- Bitqu-ša-Bēl-ēṭir
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Cam. 05-VI-00
- Date BCE
- 525
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 9 d
- Text Form
- Debt note ("promissory note") (uˀiltu; ina muḫḫi; ina pāni)
- Transaction Type
- transactional (incoming)
- Domain (Eanna)
- Agriculture
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
Content
- Paraphrase
Šamaš-zēru-ibni/…//Sîn-tabni (ŠZI) owes Eanna 87;0 dates, the impost (imittu) of a field in 2 sections (bābu), located on the bank of the (tp)Canal of Bīt-ili (nāru ša Bīt-ili), which borders (miṣru) on (the property) of Ištar-lūmur/[…]. It is a part of the rent (sūtu) of (the rent farmer, ša muḫḫi sūti) Ardia/Nabû-bān-aḫi//Rēmūt-Ea.
ŠZI will deliver these dates in m.VII in one installment, in the measure of the Lady of Uruk. With each 1;0 dates, he will give 0;0.1.4 ½ as the “mortar” (kiṣir esitti)-tax and the “life for Bēl” (balāṭ Bēl, balāṭu ana Bēl)-tax. He will also give standard additional products.
3 witnesses.
Scribe: Šamaš-mukīn-apli/Eanna-nādin-šumi//Bābūtu.
According to Ran Zadok, the patronym of the tenant is Šākin-šumi.
Bitqu-ša-Bēl-ēṭir (reconstruction following Ran Zadok) is an estate (šīḫu) of the Lady of Uruk.
Further Information
- created by
- Małgorzata Sandowicz, July 11, 2026, 1:33 p.m.
- last updated by
- Małgorzata Sandowicz, July 11, 2026, 1:33 p.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Studia Mesopotamica 5 (2021), 241-369