Basic Metadata
- NaBuCCo ID
- 8963
- Museum No.
- CBS 03584
- Primary Publication
- BE 08 65
- CDLI P-Identifier
- P259957
- Regional setting
- Nippur region
- Places mentioned on Tablet
- Qidari
- Archive
- The sons of Līšir
- Period
- Early Achaemenid
- Babylonian Date (year-month-day):
- Cyr. 5 or 6-VIII-20
- Inferred date
- Perhaps the fifth or sixth year of king Cyrus, i.e., 14th of November 534 BCE or 2nd of November 533.
- Date BCE
- 11/534
Digeanna
- Text Form
- Receipt (maḫāru, eṭēru)
- Legal Purpose
- Debt Repayment (maḫir, eṭir)
- Format of the tablet
- landscape
- Sealings
- True
Content
- Paraphrase
BE 8, 65 is a sealed receipt for the payment of an imittu impost in dates, assessed on a field (or garden) owned by with Galpari, son of Gultamu. The imittu impost is for the fourth and fifth regnal year of king Cyrus. The field (or garden) is at the disposal (ina pāni) of Sūqāya, son of Līšir.
Šamšāya, son of Kīnāya, acknowledges receipt (maḫir) of the dates from Sūqāya, son of Līšir. The payment was collected on the written order (ina našpartu) of Sîn-šarru-uṣur, the deputy official (šanû) of the town Qidari/Qiṭāru.
Two witnesses and one scribe: Ninurta-mutīr-gimilli, son of Zēru-kitti-līšir, Enlil-bān-zēri, son of Enlil-šumu-imbi, and the scribe [...]-Ninurta, son of Itti-Šamaš-balāṭu.
Further Information
- created by
- Lynn-Salambô Zimmermann, Oct. 15, 2026, 3:50 p.m.
- last updated by
- Lynn-Salambô Zimmermann, Oct. 15, 2026, 3:52 p.m.
- Mentioned in the following publication(s)
- Jursa 2010