Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 8756
- Museum No.
- NHMU ET0013
- Primary Publication
- Zadok 2020, Festschrift Sigrist, 491-533 1.1
- Place of issue
- Dūr-Enlil
- Regional setting
- Uruk region
- Places mentioned on Tablet
- Bīt-Šaddajnu
- Archive
- Eanna temple
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbk IV. 1-VI-26
- Date BCE
- 27/09/521
Digeanna
- Van Driel Files
- 4 b
- Text Form
- Receipt (maḫāru, eṭēru)
- Transaction Type
- transactional (incoming)
- Domain (Eanna)
- Agriculture
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
- Sealings
- True
Content
- Paraphrase
Šamaš-iqīša/Nabû-ēṭir and Šamaš-ēṭir/Bānia, assessors (ēmidu) and messengers (mār šipri) of Gimillu(/Innin-šumu-ibni), the rent farmer (ša muḫḫi sūti) of the Lady of Uruk, receive 35 shekels of silver from Šamaš-šarru-uṣur/Iddin-[…] (or: Šamaš-šarru-uṣur/Mu[…]).
The silver is the price (šīmu) of 70;0 dates, the impost (imittu) of the field of the Lady of Uruk in (tp)Bīt-Šaddayānu, due in NbkIV.1.
3 witnesses.
Scribe: Anu-zēru-ušebši/Lâbâši.
Two impressions of an octagonal seal (identified as the seal of Šamaš-šarru-uṣur) appear on the reverse, and a third one on the right-hand edge.
Further Information
- created by
- Małgorzata Sandowicz, Sept. 11, 2026, 4:27 p.m.
- last updated by
- Małgorzata Sandowicz, Sept. 13, 2026, 8:50 a.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Zadok 2020, Festschrift Sigrist, 491-533