Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 8767
- Museum No.
- NBC 06138
- Primary Publication
- Jursa 2005 035
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P293057
- Place of issue
- Nippur city
- Archive
- Bēl-eṭēri-Šamaš
- Period
- Neo-Babylonian
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Nbn. 15-I-dd
- Inferred date
- The proleptic Gregorian date of the first month of the 15th regnal year f Nabonidus stretches from March to April of 541 BCE.
- Date BCE
- 03/541
Digeanna
- Text Form
- Debt note ("promissory note") (uˀiltu; ina muḫḫi; ina pāni)
- Legal Purpose
- Sale (ana ... nadānu; šâmu, sometimes ina muḫḫi)
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
Content
- Paraphrase
Bēl-eṭēri-Šamaš sold a donkey with deferred payment of the purchase price (“credit purchase”), i.e. Ninurta-ālik-pāni received the donkey immediately but paid the complete purchase price on a later date. NBC 06138 records the outstanding debt, which Ninurta-ālik-pāni still owes to Bēl-eṭēri-Šamaš:
Ninurta-ālik-pāni, son of Kidinnāja, owes (ina muḫḫi) 14 shekels of silver and 0;0.4.0 sūtu of [sesame], which are the property of Bēl-eṭēri-Šamaš, son of Aplāja. He (= Ninurta-ālik-pāni) has to pay (nadānu) the silver and the sesame in the month tašrītu (= seventh month). The silver is the price (šīmu) of a donkey, in addition (elat) to an earlier (panû) amount of silver (paid).
2 witnesses and 1 scribe: Ḫabaṣīru, son of Šumu-iddin, Ninurta-aḫḫē-bulliṭ, son of Niqūdu, and the scribe: Ninurta-aplu-iddin, son of Mušēzib-[…].
Further Information
- created by
- Lynn-Salambô Zimmermann, Sept. 14, 2026, 12:05 p.m.
- last updated by
- Lynn-Salambô Zimmermann, Sept. 14, 2026, 12:05 p.m.