Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 8758
- Museum No.
- NBC 06126
- Primary Publication
- Jursa 2005 028
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P293047
- Place of issue
- Nippur city
- Archive
- Bēl-eṭēri-Šamaš
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Cyr. 6-VII-26
- Date BCE
- 09/11/533
Digeanna
- Text Form
- Debt note ("promissory note") (uˀiltu; ina muḫḫi; ina pāni)
- Legal Purpose
- Debt Repayment (maḫir, eṭir)
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
Content
- Paraphrase
The contract NBC 06126 concerns the payment of a debt in the context of business ventures involving brewers or potters. Isinnāja, son of of Šulāja, shall show (kullumu) a contract (riksu) to Bēl-eṭēri-Šamaš, son of Aplājauntil the 20th day of the month araḫsamna (= eighth month). The contract records a debt, which Isinnāja owes (ina muḫḫi) to Bēl-eṭēri-Šamaš (rašûtu ša Bēl-eṭēri-Šamaš). Rēmūt, son of Itti-Šamaš-balāṭu, stood surety (pūtu našû) for the payment in full (eṭēru), and Isinnāja had paid the debt to a Rībat.
NBC 06126 stipulates that Isinnāja has to pay the silver, which he owes, and its respective interest rate (kaspam ū hubullāšu) according to the debt note (akī u'ilti) as well as three empty ḫaṣbattu vessels (3-taḫaṣbatti rīqti) to Bēl-eṭēri-Šamaš in case he does not show it to Bēl-eṭēri-Šamaš.
Two witnesses, an Itti-[…], and Rībat, son of […], as well as a scribe (Šamaš-udammiq, son of Šamaš-aḫḫē-iddin) are preserved.
Further Information
- created by
- Lynn-Salambô Zimmermann, Sept. 11, 2026, 10:12 p.m.
- last updated by
- Lynn-Salambô Zimmermann, Oct. 4, 2026, 10:24 p.m.